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First Line: We who went where dante went
Last Line: No man cried aloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Heaven; Paradise


We who went where Dante went
And Persephone,
You can know us by the bent
Brow, and shadowy,

By the eyes that still would dream
(Through your loudest word)
Of the kindness in some stream
Or some singing-bird:

Soft our words to all who live,
Courteously we go
(There's so little to forgive,
Knowing what we know!)

Yet have patience if we stare
At your whimpering crowd . . .
Where the Nine Great Circles were
No man cried aloud.





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