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Fabien Dei Franchi

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(To my Friend Henry Irving)     The silent room, the heavy creeping shade,     The dead that travel fast, the opening door,     The murdered brother rising through the floor,     The ghost's white fingers on thy shoulders laid,     And then the lonely duel in the glade,     The broken swords, the stifled scream, the gore,     Thy grand revengeful eyes when all is o'er,     These things are well enough, but thou wert made     For more august creation! frenzied Lear     Should at thy bidding wander on the heath     With the shrill fool to mock him, Romeo     For thee should lure his love, and desperate fear     Pluck Richard's recreant dagger from its sheath     Thou trumpet set for Shakespeare's lips to blow!

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