Ryan, Sara Agnes · Chicago : The Mayer and Miller Co. · leaf 110
whom Loves minstrels bow?0 heart that held his heart forever nowThon with his glory shall be garlanded.Lo, mid the twilight of the waning years,Firenze claims once more our love, our tears;But thou, triumphant on the throne of song—By Mary seated in the realm above—0 give us of that gift than death… … Dante and Beatrice. (Peradventure with a pen corroded Still by drops of that hot ink he dipped for, When, his left-hand in the hair o the wicked, Back he held the brow, and pricked its stigma, Bit into the live mans flesh for parchment, Loosed him, laughed to see the writing rankle, Let the wretch…
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