The ribs and terrors in the whale   Arched over me a dismal doom   While all God's sun-lit waves rolled by   And lift me deepening down to doom      I saw the opening maw of hell   With endless pains and sorrows there   Elich none but they that feel can tell   Oh I was plunging to despair      In black distress   I called my God   When I could scarce believe him mine   He bowed his ears to my complaint   No more the whale did me confine      With speed he flew to my relief   As on a radiant dolphin borne   Awful, yet bright, as lightning shone   The face of my deliverer God      My song forever shall record   That terrible, that joyful hour   I give the glory to my God   His all the mercy and the power      Ahab: "Nevermore!"