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This is the church which Pisa great and free	A
Reared to St Catharine How the time stained walls	B
That earthquakes shook not from their poise appear	C
To shiver in the deep and voluble tones	D
Rolled from the organ Underneath my feet	E
There lies the lid of a sepulchral vault	F
The image of an armed knight is graven	G
Upon it clad in perfect panoply	A
Cuishes and greaves and cuirass with barred helm	H
Gauntleted hand and sword and blazoned shield	I
Around in Gothic characters worn dim	J
By feet of worshippers are traced his name	K
And birth and death and words of eulogy	A
Why should I pore upon them This old tomb	L
This effigy the strange disused form	M
Of this inscription eloquently show	N
His history Let me clothe in fitting words	O
The thoughts they breathe and frame his epitaph	P
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He whose forgotten dust for centuries	Q
Has lain beneath this stone was one in whom	L
Adventure and endurance and emprise	R
Exalted the mind's faculties and strung	S
The body's sinews Brave he was in fight	T
Courteous in banquet scornful of repose	U
And bountiful and cruel and devout	V
And quick to draw the sword in private feud	W
He pushed his quarrels to the death yet prayed	X
The saints as fervently on bended knees	Q
As ever shaven cenobite He loved	Y
As fiercely as he fought He would have borne	Z
The maid that pleased him from her bower by night	T
To his hill castle as the eagle bears	A2
His victim from the fold and rolled the rocks	B2
On his pursuers He aspired to see	A
His native Pisa queen and arbitress	A
Of cities earnestly for her he raised	C2
His voice in council and affronted death	D2
In battle field and climbed the galley's deck	E2
And brought the captured flag of Genoa back	F2
Or piled upon the Arno's crowded quay	A
The glittering spoils of the tamed Saracen	Z
He was not born to brook the stranger's yoke	G2
But would have joined the exiles that withdrew	H2
For ever when the Florentine broke in	Z
The gates of Pisa and bore off the bolts	A
For trophies but he died before that day	I2
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He lived the impersonation of an age	J2
That never shall return His soul of fire	K2
Was kindled by the breath of the rude time	L2
He lived in Now a gentler race succeeds	A
Shuddering at blood the effeminate cavalier	C
Turning his eyes from the reproachful past	M2
And from the hopeless future gives to ease	A
And love and music his inglorious life	N2

William Cullen Bryant

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