THE MALDIVE SHARK
"About the Shark, phlegmatical one, Pale sot of the Maldive sea, the sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim how alert in attendance be. From the saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw, they have nothing to dread. But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank or before his Gorgonian head: Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth in white triple tiers of glittering gates, and there find a haven when peril's abroad. an asylum in jaws of the Fates! They are friends; and friendly they guide him too prey, yet never partake of the treat -- eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull, pale ravener of horrible meat." - Herman Melville