"Prodigal" again

[herm melville]

All,

   What does St. Bernard have to do with Solomon, other than interpreting Solomon's Song? 

"No, St. Bernard, 'twas he of old

The Song's hid import first unrolled---

Confirmed in every after age:

The chapter-headings on the page

Of modern Bibles (in that Song)

After his rendering, and prolong:

A mystic burden."   ll. 193-97

Clarel remarks on the Prodigal

"Then first he marked the clustering hair

Which on the bright and shapely brow

At middle part grew slantly low:

Rich, tumbled, chestnut hood of curls,

Like to a Polynesian girl's;

Who, inland eloping with her lover,

 The deacon-magistrates recover---

With serman and black bread reprove

Who fed on berries and of love."     ll. 252-60

What say we now of the Prodigal?

John Gretchko

[Scott Norsworthy]

That he's another doubloon, our Prodigal.

... the clustering hair

Which on the bright and shapely brow
At middle part grew slantly low:

Prince or King? Either will steal your girlfriend in a heartbeat, or hipshake.

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