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He set up a little piece of poetry, which he made, himself, out of his own head -- three verses -- kind of sweet and saddish -- the name of it was, "Yes, crush, cold world, this breaking heart" -- and he left that all set up and ready to print in the paper, and didn't charge nothing for it.

Earlier today, a storm <a href="Saddish: A storm knocked down the so-called "Anne Frank tree" in Amsterdam.

If Melville is working with the power and efficacy of the spirit, he may wish for his reader to recognize Merrymusk's "base coat" as a metaphor for his physical body; his "coat" is only that which clothes his "brave spirit." Even as the narrator first meets Merrymusk, he notes the wood-sawyer's "latently joyous eye" in his "long saddish face" and explains that this observation offers "the strangest contrast" (56).