Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 2, Canto 21: The Priest and Rolfe
(1876)
“ That serious check might come to it: "No, sun doubt's root--'twill fade, 'twill fade! And for thy picture of the Prime, Green Christianity in glade-- 115 Why, let it pass; 'tis good, in sooth: Who summons poets to the truth?" ”
