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I	A
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WEEP not beloved Friends nor let the air	B
For me with sighs be troubled Not from life	C
Have I been taken this is genuine life	C
And this alone the life which now I live	D
In peace eternal where desire and joy	E
Together move in fellowship without end	F
Francesco Ceni willed that after death	G
His tombstone thus should speak for him And surely	H
Small cause there is for that fond wish of ours	I
Long to continue in this world a world	J
That keeps not faith nor yet can point a hope	K
To good whereof itself is destitute	L
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II	A
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PERHAPS some needful service of the State	M
Drew TITUS from the depth of studious bowers	I
And doomed him to contend in faithless courts	N
Where gold determines between right and wrong	O
Yet did at length his loyalty of heart	P
And his pure native genius lead him back	Q
To wait upon the bright and gracious Muses	R
Whom he had early loved And not in vain	S
Such course he held Bologna's learned schools	T
Were gladdened by the Sage's voice and hung	U
With fondness on those sweet Nestorian strains	V
There pleasure crowned his days and all his thoughts	W
A roseate fragrance breathed O human life	C
That never art secure from dolorous change	X
Behold a high injunction suddenly	H
To Arno's side hath brought him and he charmed	Y
A Tuscan audience but full soon was called	Z
To the perpetual silence of the grave	A2
Mourn Italy the loss of him who stood	B2
A Champion stedfast and invincible	C2
To quell the rage of literary War	D2
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III	A
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O THOU who movest onward with a mind	E2
Intent upon thy way pause though in haste	F2
'Twill be no fruitless moment I was born	G2
Within Savona's walls of gentle blood	H2
On Tiber's banks my youth was dedicate	M
To sacred studies and the Roman Shepherd	I2
Gave to my charge Urbino's numerous flock	J2
Well did I watch much laboured nor had power	K2
To escape from many and strange indignities	L2
Was smitten by the great ones of the world	J
But did not fall for Virtue braves all shocks	M2
Upon herself resting immoveably	C2
Me did a kindlier fortune then invite	N2
To serve the glorious Henry King of France	O2
And in his hands I saw a high reward	P2
Stretched out for my acceptance but Death came	Q2
Now Reader learn from this my fate how false	R2
How treacherous to her promise is the world	J
And trust in God to whose eternal doom	S2
Must bend the sceptred Potentates of earth	T2
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IV	A2
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THERE never breathed a man who when his life	A2
Was closing might not of that life relate	M
Toils long and hard The warrior will report	U2
Of wounds and bright swords flashing in the field	V2
And blast of trumpets He who hath been doomed	W2
To bow his forehead in the courts of kings	X2
Will tell of fraud and never ceasing hate	M
Envy and heart inquietude derived	Y2
From intricate cabals of treacherous friends	Z2
I who on shipboard lived from earliest youth	A3
Could represent the countenance horrible	C2
Of the vexed waters and the indignant rage	B3
Of Auster and Bootes Fifty years	C3
Over the well steered galleys did I rule	C2
From huge Pelorus to the Atlantic pillars	I
Rises no mountain to mine eyes unknown	D3
And the broad gulfs I traversed oft and oft	E3
Of every cloud which in the heavens might stir	K2
I knew the force and hence the rough sea's pride	F3
Availed not to my Vessel's overthrow	G3
What noble pomp and frequent have not I	A
On regal decks beheld yet in the end	F
I learned that one poor moment can suffice	H3
To equalise the lofty and the low	G3
We sail the sea of life a 'Calm' One finds	I3
And One a 'Tempest' and the voyage o'er	K2
Death is the quiet haven of us all	C2
If more of my condition ye would know	G3
Savona was my birth place and I sprang	J3
Of noble parents seventy years and three	H
Lived I then yielded to a slow disease	L2
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V	H
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TRUE is it that Ambrosio Salinero	H
With an untoward fate was long involved	K3
In odious litigation and full long	O
Fate harder still had he to endure assaults	L3
Of racking malady And true it is	M3
That not the less a frank courageous heart	P
And buoyant spirit triumphed over pain	S
And he was strong to follow in the steps	N3
Of the fair Muses Not a covert path	O3
Leads to the dear Parnassian forest's shade	P3
That might from him be hidden not a track	Q
Mounts to pellucid Hippocrene but he	H
Had traced its windings This Savona knows	Q3
Yet no sepulchral honours to her Son	R3
She paid for in our age the heart is ruled	S3
Only by gold And now a simple stone	D3
Inscribed with this memorial here is raised	T3
By his bereft his lonely Chiabrera	H
Think not O Passenger who read'st the lines	U3
That an exceeding love hath dazzled me	H
No he was One whose memory ought to spread	V3
Where'er Permessus bears an honoured name	Q2
And live as long as its pure stream shall flow	G3
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VI	A
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DESTINED to war from very infancy	H
Was I Roberto Dati and I took	W3
In Malta the white symbol of the Cross	X3
Nor in life's vigorous season did I shun	R3
Hazard or toil among the sands was seen	Y3
Of Libya and not seldom on the banks	Z3
Of wide Hungarian Danube 'twas my lot	A4
To hear the sanguinary trumpet sounded	H2
So lived I and repined not at such fate	M
This only grieves me for it seems a wrong	O
That stripped of arms I to my end am brought	B4
On the soft down of my paternal home	C4
Yet haply Arno shall be spared all cause	D4
To blush for me Thou loiter not nor halt	E4
In thy appointed way and bear in mind	E2
How fleeting and how frail is human life	A2
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VII	A2
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O FLOWER of all that springs from gentle blood	H2
And all that generous nurture breeds to make	F4
Youth amiable O friend so true of soul	C2
To fair Aglaia by what envy moved	G4
Lelius has death cut short thy brilliant day	H4
In its sweet opening and what dire mishap	I4
Has from Savona torn her best delight	N2
For thee she mourns nor e'er will cease to mourn	G2
And should the out pourings of her eyes suffice not	A4
For her heart's grief she will entreat Sebeto	A4
Not to withhold his bounteous aid Sebeto	A4
Who saw thee on his margin yield to death	G
In the chaste arms of thy beloved Love	A2
What profit riches what does youth avail	C2
Dust are our hopes I weeping bitterly	H
Penned these sad lines nor can forbear to pray	H4
That every gentle Spirit hither led	A4
May read them not without some bitter tears	J4
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VIII	A2
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NOT without heavy grief of heart did He	H
On whom the duty fell for at that time	K4
The father sojourned in a distant land	A4
Deposit in the hollow of this tomb	S2
A brother's Child most tenderly beloved	A4
FRANCESCO was the name the Youth had borne	G2
POZZOBONNELLI his illustrious house	L4
And when beneath this stone the Corse was laid	A4
The eyes of all Savona streamed with tears	J4
Alas the twentieth April of his life	A2
Had scarcely flowered and at this early time	K4
By genuine virtue he inspired a hope	K
That greatly cheered his country to his kin	M4
He promised comfort and the flattering thoughts	W
His friends had in their fondness entertained	A4
He suffered not to languish or decay	H4
Now is there not good reason to break forth	N4
Into a passionate lament O Soul	C2
Short while a Pilgrim in our nether world	A4
Do thou enjoy the calm empyreal air	H
And round this earthly tomb let roses rise	O4
An everlasting spring in memory	H
Of that delightful fragrance which was once	P4
From thy mild manners quietly exhaled	A4
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IX	P4
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PAUSE courteous Spirit Balbi supplicates	P4
That Thou with no reluctant voice for him	Q4
Here laid in mortal darkness wouldst prefer	H
A prayer to the Redeemer of the world	A4
This to the dead by sacred right belongs	P4
All else is nothing Did occasion suit	A4
To tell his worth the marble of this tomb	S2
Would ill suffice for Plato's lore sublime	K4
And all the wisdom of the Stagyrite	A4
Enriched and beautified his studious mind	A4
With Archimedes also he conversed	A4
As with a chosen friend nor did he leave	A2
Those laureat wreaths ungathered which the Nymphs	P4
Twine near their loved Permessus Finally	H
Himself above each lower thought uplifting	R4
His ears he closed to listen to the songs	P4
Which Sion's Kings did consecrate of old	A4
And his Permessus found on Lebanon	R3
A blessed Ma	S4