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There is a city upbuilt on the quays of the turbulent Arno	A
Under Fiesole's heights thither are we to return	B
There is a city that fringes the curve of the inflowing waters	C
Under the perilous hill fringes the beautiful bay	D
Parthenope do they call thee the Siren Neapolis seated	E
Under Vesevus's hill are we receding to thee	F
Sicily Greece will invite and the Orient or are we turn to	G
England which may after all be for its children the best	H
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I Mary Trevellyn at Lucerne to Miss Roper at Florence	I
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So you are really free and living in quiet at Florence	I
That is delightful news you travelled slowly and safely	F
Mr Claude got you out took rooms at Florence before you	G
Wrote from Milan to say so had left directly for Milan	J
Hoping to find us soon if he could he would you are certain	K
Dear Miss Roper your letter has made me exceedingly happy	F
You are quite sure you say he asked you about our intentions	L
You had not heard as yet of Lucerne but told him of Como	A
Well perhaps he will come however I will not expect it	M
Though you say you are sure if he can he will you are certain	K
O my dear many thanks from your ever affectionate Mary	F
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II Claude to Eustace	N
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Florence	I
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Action will furnish belief but will that belief be the true one	K
This is the point you know However it doesn't much matter	O
What one wants I suppose is to predetermine the action	K
So as to make it entail not a chance belief but the true one	K
Out of the question you say if a thing isn't wrong we may do it	M
Ah but this wrong you see but I do not know that it matters	C
Eustace the Ropers are gone and no one can tell me about them	P
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Pisa	Q
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Pisa they say they think and so I follow to Pisa	Q
Hither and thither inquiring I weary of making inquiries	R
I am ashamed I declare of asking people about it	M
Who are your friends You said you had friends who would certainly know them	P
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Florence	I
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But it is idle moping and thinking and trying to fix her	O
Image once more and more in to write the whole perfect inscription	K
Over and over again upon every page of remembrance	I
I have settled to stay at Florence to wait for your answer	O
Who are your friends Write quickly and tell me I wait for your answer	O
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III Mary Trevellyn to Miss Roper at Lucca Baths	S
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You are at Lucca baths you tell me to stay for the summer	O
Florence was quite too hot you can't move further at present	T
Will you not come do you think before the summer is over	O
Mr C got you out with very considerable trouble	U
And he was useful and kind and seemed so happy to serve you	G
Didn't stay with you long but talked very openly to you	G
Made you almost his confessor without appearing to know it	M
What about and you say you didn't need his confessions	L
O my dear Miss Roper I dare not trust what you tell me	F
Will he come do you think I am really so sorry for him	V
They didn't give him my letter at Milan I feel pretty certain	K
You had told him Bellaggio We didn't go to Bellaggio	W
So he would miss our track and perhaps never come to Lugano	A
Where we were written in full To Lucerne across the St Gothard	X
But he could write to you you would tell him where you were going	W
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IV Claude to Eustace	N
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Let me then bear to forget her I will not cling to her falsely	F
Nothing factitious or forced shall impair the old happy relation	K
I will let myself go forget not try to remember	O
I will walk on my way accept the chances that meet me	F
Freely encounter the world imbibe these alien airs and	Y
Never ask if new feelings and thoughts are of her or of others	C
Is she not changing herself the old image would only delude me	F
I will be bold too and change if it must be Yet if in all things	Z
Yet if I do but aspire evermore to the Absolute only	F
I shall be doing I think somehow what she will be doing	W
I shall be thine O my child some way though I know not in what way	D
Let me submit to forget her I must I already forget her	O
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V Claude to Eustace	N
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Utterly vain is alas this attempt at the Absolute wholly	F
I who believed not in her because I would fain believe nothing	W
Have to believe as I may with a wilful unmeaning acceptance	I
I who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence	I
In the rich earth cling now to the hard naked rock that is left me	F
Ah she was worthy Eustace and that indeed is my comfort	A2
Worthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her	O
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Yes it relieves me to write though I do not send and the chance that	B2
Takes may destroy my fragments But as men pray without asking	W
Whether One really exist to hear or do anything for them	P
Simply impelled by the need of the moment to turn to a Being	W
In a conception of whom there is freedom from all limitation	K
So in your image I turn to an ens rationis of friendship	C2
Even so write in your name I know not to whom nor in what wise	D2
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There was a time methought it was but lately departed	E
When if a thing was denied me I felt I was bound to attempt it	M
Choice alone should take and choice alone should surrender	O
There was a time indeed when I had not retired thus early	F
Languidly thus from pursuit of a purpose I once had adopted	E
But it is all over all that I have slunk from the perilous field in	E2
Whose wild struggle of forces the prizes of life are contested	E
It is over all that I am a coward and know it	M
Courage in me could be only factitious unnatural useless	N
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Comfort has come to me here in the dreary streets of the city	F
Comfort how do you think with a barrel organ to bring it	M
Moping along the streets and cursing my day as I wandered	X
All of a sudden my ear met the sound of an English psalm tune	F2
Comfort me it did till indeed I was very near crying	W
Ah there is some great truth partial very likely but needful	U
Lodged I am strangely sure in the tones of the English psalm tune	F2
Comfort it was at least and I must take without question	K
Comfort however it come in the dreary streets of the city	F
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I shall behold thee again is it so at a new visitation	K
O ill genius thou I shall at my life's dissolution	K
When the pulses are weak and the feeble light of the reason	K
Flickers an unfed flame retiring slow from the socket	G2
Low on a sick bed laid hear one as it were at the doorway	D
And looking up see thee standing by looking emptily at me	F
I shall entreat thee then though now I dare to refuse thee	F
Pale and pitiful now but terrible then to the dying	W
Well I will see thee again and while I can will repel thee	F
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VI Claude to Eustace	N
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Rome is fallen I hear the gallant Medici taken	K
Noble Manara slain and Garibaldi has lost il Moro	A
Rome is fallen and fallen or falling heroical Venice	N
I meanwhile for the loss of a single small chit of a girl sit	M
Moping and mourning here for her and myself much smaller	O
Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle	U
Die in the lost lost fight for the cause that perishes with them	P
Are they upborne from the field on the slumberous pinions of angels	H2
Unto a far off home where the weary rest from their labour	I2
And the deep wounds are healed and the bitter and burning moisture	O
Wiped from the generous eyes or do they linger unhappy	F
Pining and haunting the grave of their by gone hope and endeavour	O
All declamation alas though I talk I care not for Rome nor	J2
Italy feebly and faintly and but with the lips can lament the	Q
Wreck of the Lombard youth and the victory of the oppressor	O
Whither depart the brave God knows	K2

Arthur Hugh Clough

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