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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

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Dwell on those etchings in the night,
Those touches bitten in the steel
By aqua-fortis, till ye feel
The Pauline text in gray of light;
Turn hither then and read aright.
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