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Clarel

a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

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CLAREL
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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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PART III. MAR SABA.
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PART IV. BETHLEHEM.

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The abbot and the palmer rest:
The legends follow them and die—
Those legends which, be it confessed,
Did nearer bring to them the sky—
Did nearer woo it to their hope
Of all that seers and saints avow—
Than Galileo's telescope
Can bid it unto prosing Science now.
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