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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land

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The camel's skull upon the beach
No more the sluggish waters reach—
No more the languid waters lave;
Not now they wander in and out
Of those void chambers walled about—
So dull the calm, so dead the wave.
Above thick mist how pallid looms,

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While the slurred day doth wanly break,
Ammon's long ridge beyond the lake.