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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - On The Vita Nuova Of Dante
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AS he that loves oft looks on the dear form 
            And guesses how it grew to womanhood, 
            And gladly would have watched the beauties bud 
       And the mild fire of precious life wax warm: 
       So I, long bound within the threefold charm 
            Of Dante`s love sublimed to heavenly mood, 
            Had marvelled, touching his Beatitude, 
       How grew such presence from man`s shameful swarm. 
       At length within this book I found pourtrayed 
        Newborn that Paradisal Love of his, 
       And simple like a child; with whose clear aid 
            I understood. To such a child as this, 
       Christ, charging well His chosen ones, forbade 
            Offence: “for lo! of such my kingdom is.”
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