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To the Signora Cairoli	A
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Blessed was she that bare	B
Hidden in flesh most fair	B
For all men's sake the likeness of all love	C
Holy that virgin's womb	D
The old record saith on whom	D
The glory of God alighted as a dove	C
Blessed who brought to gracious birth	E
The sweet souled Saviour of a man tormented earth	E
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But four times art thou blest	F
At whose most holy breast	F
Four times a godlike soldier saviour hung	G
And thence a fourfold Christ	H
Given to be sacrificed	H
To the same cross as the same bosom clung	G
Poured the same blood to leave the same	I
Light on the many folded mountain skirts of fame	I
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Shall they and thou not live	J
The children thou didst give	K
Forth of thine hands a godlike gift to death	L
Through fire of death to pass	M
For her high sake that was	N
Thine and their mother that gave all you breath	L
Shall ye not live till time drop dead	O
O mother and each her children's consecrated head	O
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Many brought gifts to take	P
For her love's supreme sake	P
Life and life's love pleasure and praise and rest	F
And went forth bare but thou	Q
So much once richer and now	Q
Poorer than all these more than these be blest	F
Poorer so much by so much given	R
Than who gives earth for heaven's sake not for earth's sake heaven	R
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Somewhat could each soul save	S
What thing soever it gave	S
But thine mother what has thy soul kept back	T
None of thine all not one	R
To serve thee and be thy son	R
Feed with love all thy days lest one day lack	T
All thy whole life's love thine heart's whole	A
Thou hast given as who gives gladly O thou the supreme soul	A
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The heart's pure flesh and blood	U
The heaven thy motherhood	V
The live lips the live eyes that lived on thee	W
The hands that clove with sweet	X
Blind clutch to thine the feet	X
That felt on earth their first way to thy knee	W
The little laughter of mouths milk fed	O
Now open again to feed on dust among the dead	O
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The fair strong young men's strength	Y
Light of life days and length	Y
And glory of earth seen under and stars above	C
And years that bring to tame	I
Now the wild falcon fame	I
Now to stroke smooth the dove white breast of love	C
The life unlived the unsown seeds	Z
Suns unbeholden songs unsung and undone deeds	Z
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Therefore shall man's love be	W
As an own son to thee	W
And the world's worship of thee for a child	A2
All thine own land as one	R
New born a nursing son	R
All thine own people a new birth undefiled	A2
And all the unborn Italian time	B2
And all its glory and all its works thy seed sublime	B2
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That henceforth no man's breath	L
Saying Italy but saith	L
In that most sovereign word thine equal name	I
Nor can one speak of thee	L
But he saith Italy	L
Seeing in two suns one co eternal flame	I
One heat one heaven one heart one fire	C2
One light one love one benediction one desire	C2
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Blest above praise and prayer	B
And incense of men's air	B
Thy place is higher than where such voices rise	D2
As in men's temples make	P
Music for some vain sake	P
This God's or that God's in one weary wise	D2
Thee the soul silent the shut heart	A2
The locked lips of the spirit praise thee that thou art	A2
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Yea for man's whole life's length	L
And with man's whole soul's strength	L
We praise thee O holy and bless thee O mother of lights	E2
And send forth as on wings	F2
The world's heart's thanksgivings	F2
Song birds to sing thy days through and thy nights	F2
And wrap thee around and arch thee above	C
With the air of benediction and the heaven of love	C
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And toward thee our unbreathed words	F2
Fly speechless winged as birds	F2
As the Indian flock children of Paradise	F2
The winged things without feet	A2
Fed with God's dew for meat	A2
That live in the air and light of the utter skies	F2
So fleet so flying a footless flight	A2
With wings for feet love seeks thee to partake thy sight	A2
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Love like a clear sky spread	A2
Bends over thy loved head	A2
As a new heaven bends over a new born earth	L
When the old night's womb is great	A2
With young stars passionate	A2
And fair new planets fiery fresh from birth	L
And moon white here there hot like Mars	F2
Souls that are worlds shine on thee spirits that are stars	F2
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Till the whole sky burns through	G2
With heaven's own heart deep hue	G2
With passion coloured glories of lit souls	F2
And thine above all names	F2
Writ highest with lettering flames	F2
Lightens and all the old starriest aureoles	F2
And all the old holiest memories wane	H2
And the old names of love's chosen found in thy sight vain	H2
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And crowned heads are discrowned	A2
And stars sink without sound	A2
And love's self for thy love's sake waxes pale	A
Seeing from his storied skies	F2
In what new reverent wise	F2
Thee Rome's most highest her sovereign daughters hail	A
Thee Portia thee Veturia grey	I2
Thee Arria thee Cornelia Roman more than they	I2
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Even all these as all we	L
Subdue themselves to thee	L
Bow their heads haloed quench their fiery fame	I
Seen through dim years divine	J2
Their faint lights feminine	R
Sink then spring up rekindled from thy flame	I
Fade then reflower and reillume	I
From thy fresh spring their wintering age with new blown bloom	I
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To thy much holier head	A2
Even theirs the holy and dead	A2
Bow themselves each one from her heavenward height	A2
Each in her shining turn	K2
All tremble toward thee and yearn	K2
To melt in thine their consummated light	A2
Till from day's Capitolian dome	I
One glory of many glories lighten upon Rome	I
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Hush thyself song and cease	F2
Close lips and hold your peace	F2
What help hast thou what part have ye herein	L2
But you with sweet shut eyes	F2
Heart hidden memories	F2
Dreams and dumb thoughts that keep what things have been	L2
Silent and pure of all words said	A2
Praise without song the living without dirge the dead	A2
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Thou strengthless in these things	F2
Song fold thy feebler wings	F2
And as a pilgrim go forth girt and shod	A2
And where the new graves are	M2
And where the sunset star	M2
To the pure spirit of man that men call God	A2
To the high soul of things that is	F2
Made of men's heavenlier hopes and mightier memories	F2
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To the elements that make	P
For the soul's living sake	P
This raiment of dead things of shadow and trance	F2
That give us chance and time	I
Wherein to aspire and climb	I
And set our life's work higher than time or chance	F2
The old sacred elements that give	K
The breath of life to days that die to deeds that live	J
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To them veiled gods and great	A2
There bow thee and dedicate	A2
The speechless spirit in these thy weak words hidden	R
And mix thy reverent breath	L
With holier air of death	L
At the high feast of sorrow a guest unbidden	R
Till with divine triumphal tears	F2
Thou fill men's eyes who listen with a heart that hears	F2