{"id":"01KG8AJTNS4162P3FFFQ2Q20FH","cid":"bafkreiaum7wz3jxdjn534eg27c6yzd6y4xzlr5atro77bsxouv6pp2wwmq","type":"chapter","properties":{"description":"# CHAPTER LII. The Charming Yoomy Sings\n## Overview\nThis is a chapter from the novel [Mardi: And a Voyage Thither](arke:01KG8AJ8ZNB03D0FWFP362WQEN) by Herman Melville. It is extracted from the file [mardi_vol2.txt](arke:01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9) and is part of the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The chapter appears between [CHAPTER LI. In Which Azzageddi Seems To Use Babbalanja For A Mouth-Piece](arke:01KG8AJTNYJAJVPY249XHCDNG8) and [CHAPTER LIII. They Draw Nigh Unto Land](arke:01KG8AJTNSMTWKX1YVY3BYCJQD).\n\n## Context\nThe chapter is part of a larger effort to extract and structure the complete works of Herman Melville. The source text file, [mardi_vol2.txt](arke:01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9), was processed using a structure extraction lambda function to identify chapters and other structural elements within the novel [Mardi: And a Voyage Thither](arke:01KG8AJ8ZNB03D0FWFP362WQEN).\n\n## Contents\nThis chapter features the character Yoomy singing a song. The chapter text includes the lyrics of Yoomy's song, which describes a maiden's mouth and bosom using imagery of shells and flowers. Old Mohi interrupts Yoomy's song, deeming it disordered, preventing Yoomy from singing the \"glorious sequel\".\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:59.139Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"CHAPTER LII. The Charming Yoomy Sings","end_line":7363,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:38.723Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"CHAPTER LII. The Charming Yoomy Sings","source_file":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","start_line":7312,"text":"CHAPTER LII.\r\nThe Charming Yoomy Sings\r\n\r\n\r\nThe morrow came; and three abreast, with snorting prows, we raced\r\nalong; our mat-sails panting to the breeze. All present partook of the\r\nlife of the air; and unanimously Yoomy was called upon for a song. The\r\ncanoes were passing a long, white reef, sparkling with shells, like a\r\njeweler’s case: and thus Yoomy sang in the same old strain as of yore;\r\nbeginning aloud, where he had left off in his soul:—\r\n\r\n        Her sweet, sweet mouth!\r\n    The peach-pearl shell:—\r\nRed edged its lips,\r\n    That softly swell,\r\nJust oped to speak,\r\nWith blushing cheek,\r\n    That fisherman\r\nWith lonely spear\r\n    On the reef ken,\r\nAnd lift to ear\r\nIts voice to hear,—\r\n    Soft sighing South!\r\nLike this, like this,—\r\nThe rosy kiss!—\r\n    That maiden’s mouth.\r\nA shell! a shell!\r\nA vocal shell!\r\n    Song-dreaming,\r\nIn its inmost dell!\r\n\r\nHer bosom! Two buds half blown, they tell;\r\nA little valley between perfuming;\r\n            That roves away,\r\n            Deserting the day,—\r\n    The day of her eyes illuming;—\r\nThat roves away, o’er slope and fell,\r\nTill a soft, soft meadow becomes the dell.\r\n\r\n\r\nThus far, old Mohi had been wriggling about in his seat, twitching his\r\nbeard, and at every couplet looking up expectantly, as if he desired\r\nthe company to think, that he was counting upon that line as the last;\r\nBut now, starting to his feet, he exclaimed, “Hold, minstrel! thy\r\nmuse’s drapery is becoming disordered: no more!”\r\n\r\n“Then no more it shall be,” said Yoomy, “But you have lost a glorious\r\nsequel.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r","title":"CHAPTER LII. The Charming Yoomy Sings"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ8ZNB03D0FWFP362WQEN","peer_type":"novel","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1954N2G0NAERBNJXEX9","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJTNYJAJVPY249XHCDNG8","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJTNSMTWKX1YVY3BYCJQD","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:44.313Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:59.467Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}