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Chapter 13c In the tracks of these cetaceans For as long as he could follow So he said to Tor the shipwright "I will follow after Matto “In the hope beyond all hoping That my boy might yet be living For my heart lies in the ocean I cannot return without him" Tor knew better than to argue So he did the best he could to Make the vessel right for sailing As he worked with Han in silence Bailing water from the bilges Making good the sail and rudder Tor then sailed off with the children Back to shore, while Han departed In the opposite direction Solitary in his sail boat Searching all across the ocean For the plumes of blowing humpbacks Soon he saw the breaching whale pod Moving out to open ocean Eastward farther from the island Han pursued the pod till nightfall In the dark he saw the creatures By the glowing phosphorescence As colossal flukes and flippers Left a wake that glowed and twinkled Underneath the ocean surface And he sailed among the light-trails Scintillating blue and silver Marking out the great beast's outlines As if sea had stolen starlight But his heart was dead to wonder Through the whole long night he traveled Followed without thought of sleeping Till he saw the glow of morning Pale upon the eastern skyline On he sailed among the humpbacks Looking now to see their blowing And he saw now all around him Rising plumes of white and rainbow But the pod had grown much larger Blowing whales could now be sighted All the way to the horizon As the multitude of humpbacks Many thousands in their number Filled up all the ocean surface Han's despair now knew no limit As among the breaching humpbacks To and fro in endless pattern He kept sailing, calling loudly "Matto Matto - can you hear me!?" Till his voice was hoarse and painful But he never once relented Ever sailing, ever calling This vast gathering of humpbacks Was an ancient sight of wonder That our current generation Will not have the chance to witness Han went on beyond all hoping Past his limit of endurance Searching wide and far for his Beloved son among the whale spouts Till he fell in deep exhaustion To a dreamless sleep of blackness To the boundary of existence Motionless within his sail boat Through the twilight into nighttime And through all the hours of darkness Han's soul drifted near the border Of the living and the dying
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