BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA

 

Herman Melville

1819 - 1891

 

 

Clarel

 

Melville's Note

 

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If during the period in which this work has remained unpublished, though not undivulged, any of its properties have by a natural process exhaled; it yet retains, I trust, enough of original life to redeem it at least from vapidity. Be that as it may, I here dismiss the book–content beforehand with whatever future awaits it.