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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land

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“So fade men from each other!—Jew,
We do forgive thee now thy scoff,

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Now that thou dim recedest off
Forever. Fair hap to thee, Jew:
Consolator whom thou disownest
Attend thee in last hour lonest!”
Rolfe, gazing, could not all repress
That utterance; and more or less,
Albeit they left it undeclared,
The others in the feeling shared.