Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 1, Canto 17: Nathan
(1876)
“ The great White Hills, mount flanked by mount, The Saco and Ammonoosuc's fount; Where, in September's equinox 85 Nature hath put such terror on That from his mother man would run— Our mother, Earth: the founded rocks Unstable prove: the Slide! the Slide! ”
Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 1, Canto 17: Nathan
(1876)
“ The shrewd Scot turned his square, strong head— 125 The book he saw, in troubled trim, Fearing for Nathan, even him So young, and for the mill, may be, Should his unspoken heresy Get bruited so. The lad but part 130 Might penetrate that senior heart. ”
