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Clarel

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

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Arrested, those five revelers there,
Fixed in light postures of their glee,
Seemed problematic shapes ye see
In linked caprice of festal air
Graved round the Greek sarcophagi.
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