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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land

Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

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Not knowing them in very heart,
Nor why to join him they were loth,
He, disappointed, moved apart,
With sad pace creeping, dull, as doth
Along the bough the nerveless sloth.