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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land

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Queer?” muttered Rolfe as Derwent went;
Queer is the furthest he will go
In phrase of a disparagement.
But—ominous, with haggard rent—
To me yon crag's brow-beating brow
Looks horrible—and I say so.”