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dolphin (n.)

Parting day

Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues

With a new colour as it gasps away,

The last still loveliest, till—'t is gone, and all is gray.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 29.

  Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part II. Act ii. Sc. 1.