Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 2, Canto 24: The River-Rite
(1876)
“ I'll ask himself.--"Who art thou, say?" "The chief of sinners."--"Lack-a-day, 85 I think so too;" and moved away, Low muttering in his ill content At that so Christian bafflement; And hunted up his sumpter mule Intent on lunch. A pair hard by 90 He found. The third some person sly In deeper shade had hitched--more cool. ”
