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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LA VIA NUOVA: 28, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye pilgrim-folk, advancing pensively
Last Line: That men weep hearing it, and have no choice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Italian Renaissance
First Line: Ye pilgrim-folk, advancing pensively
Last Line: That men weep hearing it, and have no choice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Italian Renaissance
YE pilgrim-folk, advancing pensively
As if in thought of distant things, I pray,
Is your own land indeed so far away—
As by your aspect it would seem to be—
That this our heavy sorrow leaves you free
Though passing through the mournful town midway;
Like unto men that understand to-day
Nothing at all of her great misery?
Yet if ye will but stay, whom I accost,
And listen to my words a little space,
At going ye shall mourn with a loud voice.
It is her Beatrice that she hath lost;
Of whom the least word spoken holds such grace
That men weep hearing it, and have no choice.
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