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DANTE, by                    
First Line: Sublime the music - poet of the dead
Last Line: First bade thee welcome to god's paradise.


SUBLIME the music -- poet of the dead --
Thy heart pour'd forth in wild impassion'd strain;
Through mystic chords of wonder and of dread,
There throbs a note of living woe or pain.
I see thee, glory-robed, on Fame's high throne,
And crown'd with laurel and pale asphodel;
But, oh! the yearning pathos of those eyes,
The shades of sadness that within them dwell! --
Like clouds that dim the great sun-lighted skies!
I deem thy sad lips breathe one word alone,
The name of her who might have been thine own;
But thou hast now the bliss on earth denied,
And it may be thy spirit's spirit-bride
First bade thee welcome to God's paradise.





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