"Bethink thee of the albatross, whence come those clouds of spiritual wonderment and pale dread, in which that white phantom sails in all imaginations? Not Coleridge first threw that spell; but God's great, unflattering laureate, Nature"…He remarks in detail: I remember the first albatross I ever saw. It was during a prolonged gale, in waters hard upon the antarctic seas…So that by no possibility could Coleridge's wild Rhyme have had aught to do with those mystical impressions which were mine, when I saw that bird upon our deck." from Moby Dick, Written in 1851. H. Melville died an unknown genius in 1891.