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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

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“And the Bey to the Emir exclaimed, Who knows?
In the shade of the scimiters Paradise shows!
Hurrah! hurrah and hurrah
For the grove of swords in the wind of war!”