Bookmarked for lyrical dialogue between personified trees and river waters: CLAREL Part 2 Canto 27

What is this? Only Vine (Melville's stand-in for Hawthorne, partly) and a troubled divinity student, lounging together on a shaded bank of the Jordan River in Part 2 Canto 27 of CLAREL. A key passage oft examined for the intensity of Clarel's attraction to Vine. But I'm… pic.twitter.com/MRngilaDxM

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