Dante and Beatrice. 1st May 1274
Sir
Theodore
Martin
Martin, Theodore
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Beautiful Florence ! As in dreams I stray
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Dante and Beatrice
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st May 1274
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Beautiful Florence ! As in dreams I stray
Along thy storied streets, meseems as though
I saw, as Dante saw, long years ago,
A bevy of young girls come up the way,
Flushed with the freshness of the fragrant May,
And of them one especially I know,
Fair, maiden-modest, and with looks that so
Bless where they fall, they every pain allay.
And now she turns, drawn by some mastering spell,
Where all-a-tremble the young Dante stood,
And ’neath her grave sweet smile his eyelids fell :
Divined he then, through Paradise she should
His footsteps guide up from abysmal Hell
To Heaven, star-led by saintly womanhood ?
Theodore Martin
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