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The Doom Of Beauty.

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Spirto ben nato.     Choice soul, in whom, as in a glass, we see,             Mirrored in thy pure form and delicate,             What beauties heaven and nature can create,             The paragon of all their works to be!     Fair soul, in whom love, pity, piety,             Have found a home, as from thy outward state             We clearly read, and are so rare and great             That they adorn none other like to thee!     Love takes me captive; beauty binds my soul;             Pity and mercy with their gentle eyes             Wake in my heart a hope that cannot cheat.     What law, what destiny, what fell control,             What cruelty, or late or soon, denies             That death should spare perfection so complete?

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