MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 9 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | MOBY DICK Herman Melville CHAPTER 9 The Sermon Father Mapple rose and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. Star board gangway there side away to larboard- larboard gangway to starboard Midships midships There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches and a still slighter shuffling of women s shoes and all was quiet again and every eye on the preacher. He paused a little then kneeling in the pulpit s bows folded his large brown hands across his chest uplifted his closed eyes and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea. This ended in prolonged solemn tones like the continual tolling of a bell in a ship that is foundering at sea in a fog- in such tones he commenced reading the following hymn but changing his manner towards the concluding stanzas burst forth with a pealing exultation and joy- The ribs and terrors in the whale Arched over me a dismal gloom 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 Which 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 ear to my complaints- 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 for ever shall record That terrible that joyful hour I give the glory to my God His all the mercy and the power. Nearly all joined in singing this hymn which swelled high above the howling of the storm. A brief pause ensued the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible and at last folding his hand down upon the proper page said Beloved shipmates clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah- And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. Shipmates this book containing only four chapters- four yarns- is
