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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

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PART III. MAR SABA.

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PART IV. BETHLEHEM.

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With a rose in thy mouth
Through the world lightly veer:

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Rose in the mouth
Makes a rose of the year!”