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"There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch."
"Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!"
"In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe."
"These have not the hope to die."
"Go right on and listen as thou goest."
"Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me."
"Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil"
"Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow."
"Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see."
"At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe."
"I made my own house be my gallows."
"Doubting pleases me no less than knowing"
"The well heeded well heard."
"He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling."
"Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti. (Follow your road and let the people say)."
"I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more."
"In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct."
"That with him were, what time the Love Divine"
"Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure."
"No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope."