Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 3, Canto 31: The Recoil
(1876)
“ Is strength too strong to teach the weak? Though tame the life seem, turn the cheek, Does the call elect the hero-heart?-- The thunder smites our tropic bloom: If live the abodes unvexed and balmy-- 25 No equinox with annual doom ”
Herman Melville,
Clarel — Part 3, Canto 31: The Recoil
(1876)
“ Through all their ranks they are masculine; Else how the power with purity? Or in yon worlds of light is known The clear intelligence alone? Express the Founder's words declare, 35 Marrying none is in the heaven ”
