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IL POETA MI DISSE, "CHE PENSI?"
Virgil stayed Dante with a wayside word;
But long, and how, and loud and urgently
The poets of my passion have I heard
Summoning me.
It is their closest whisper and their call.
Their greatness to this lowliness hath spoken,
Their voices rest upon that interval, / Their sign, their token.
Man at his little prayer tells Heaven his thought, / To man entrusts his thought -- "Friend, this is mine." / The immortal poets within my breast have sought, / Saying, "What is thine?"