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I Give To You These Verses

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I give to you these verses, that if in     Some future time my name lands happily     To bring brief pleasure to humanity,     The craft supported by a great north wind,     Your memory, like tales from ancient times,     Will bore the reader like a dulcimer,     And by a strange fraternal chain live here     As if suspended in my lofty rhymes.     From deepest pit into the highest sky     Damned being, only I can bear you now.     0 shadow, barely present to the eye,     You lightly step, with a serene regard     On mortal fools who've judged you mean and hard     Angel with eyes of jet, great burnished brow!

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