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For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, / Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, / Shall find her own sweet name, that, nestling lies / Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
Search narrowly the lines! -- they hold a treasure / Divine -- a talisman -- an amulet / That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure --
The words -- the syllables! Do not forget / The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor!
And yet there is in this no Gordian knot / Which one might not undo without a sabre, / If one could merely comprehend the plot.
Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering / Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus / Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing / Of poets by poets -- as the name is a poet's, too.
Its letters, although naturally lying / Like the knight Pinto -- Mendez Ferdinando --
Still form a synonym for Truth -- Cease trying!
You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do.