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Clarel
a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)
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Clarel
That for the past; and for the surge
Reactionary, which years urge:
“Elating and elate,
Do they mount them in their pride?
Let them wait a little, wait,
For the brimming of the flood
Brings the turning of the tide.”
Clarel