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In graceful lines the hills advance,

The valley’s sweep repays the glance,

And wavy curves of winding beach;

But all is charred or crunched or riven,

Scarce seems of earth whereon we dwell;

Though framed within the lines of heaven

The picture intimates a hell.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Clarel, A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land

(II, XXIX, 11.13–19), 1876