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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land

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Restrictions of that Eastern code
Immured the maiden. From abode

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Frequent nor distant she withdrew
Except with Jewess, scarce with Jew.
So none the less in former mode,
Nehemiah still with Clarel went,
Who grew in liking and content
In company of one whose word
Babbled of Ruth—“My bird—God's bird.”