Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 1, Canto 13: The Arch
(1876)
“ In beauty and in terror too Shalt paralyze the nobler race— Smite or suspend, perplex, deter— Tortured, shalt prove a torturer. Whatever ribald Future be, 100 Thee shall these heed, amaze their hearts with thee Thy white, thy red, thy fairness and thy tragedy. ”
