Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 2, Canto 3: By the Garden
(1876)
“ Had offered; but the other changed In quick caprice, and willful ranged In wild invective: "O abyss! Here, upon what was erst the sod, 150 A man betrayed the yearning god; A man, yet with a woman's kiss. ”
Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 2, Canto 3: By the Garden
(1876)
“ Terra Damnata though's at hand Within."--"You mean whereJudas stood? 115 Yes, monks locate and name that ground; They've railed it off. Good, very good: It minds one of a vacant pound.-- We tarry long: why lags our man?" ”
Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 2, Canto 3: By the Garden
(1876)
“ And let's discard each idle trope-- Rightly considered, they can give A hope to man, a cheerful hope." "Not for this world. The Christian plea-- What basis has it, but that here 135 Man is not happy, nor can be? ”
