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Your Dante ! Homer of the Christian age, The sacred poet of Faith's mysteries- Hero of thought-whose gloomy genius plunged In Styx, and pierced to hell ; and whose deep soul Was like the abyss it fathomed.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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