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TO THE TRAGEDIAN ROSSI, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trailing thy mantle black, I've seen thee break
Last Line: Saw alighieri, living, chant of hell!


Trailing thy mantle black, I've seen thee break,
O Rossi, weak Ophelia's saddened heart,
And, as the love-mad Moorish tiger, start
Strangling the sobs thy victim could not wake;
I Lear, Macbeth have seen, and seen thee take
The last cold kiss in love's supremest part
Of older Italy; -- high flights of art! --
Yet greater triumphs have I seen thee make,
For I did taste of joy and woe sublime
When I did hear thee speak the triple rhyme.
In voice of gold you rang its iron knell,
And red, in reflex of the infernal fire,
My very soul moved by deep horror dire
Saw Alighieri, living, chant of hell!






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