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Beatrice

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(FOR THE BEATRICE CELEBRATION, 1890)     Nine mystic revolutions of the spheres     Since Dante's birth, and lo! a star new-born     Shining in heaven: and like a lark at morn     Springing to meet it, straight in all men's ears,     A strange new song, which through the listening years     Grew deep as lonely sobbing from the thorn     Rising at eve, shot through with bitter scorn,     Full-throated with the ecstasy of tears.     Long since that star arose, that song upsprang,     That shine and sing in heaven above us yet;     Since thy white childhood, glorious Beatrice,     Dawned like a blessed angel upon his:     Thy star it was that did his song beget,     Star shining for us still because he sang.

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