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ON A FLY LEAF OF DANTE - ZaunköniG - 10.08.2014
ON A FLY LEAF OF DANTE
LET whoso enters here remember well,
That nevermore with unanointed eyes.
Shall he to whom the palms of Paradise
Have waved a welcome, and the streets of Hell
Flamed with red terrors, walk where mortals dwell;
Henceforth he shall behold dim mysteries
In common things, and how men's destinies —
Love, hope and death — from obscure founts upwell.
Thus was it that, with vision sadly keen.
From shadowy realms of unimagined pain.
From sun-crowned heights of joy where thou hadst been,
Unto this babbling world thou cam'st again ;
But always on thy woe. O Florentine,
Thy saint's sweet memory fell like summer rain.