Herman Melville: Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity — reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle

Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity — reverence. These must mate, And fu — Herman Melville

Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity — reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel — Art.

Herman Melville

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