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VITTORIA COLONNA at the convent window.
VITTORIA. / Parting with friends is temporary death, / As all death is. We see no more their faces, / Nor hear their voices, save in memory; / But messages of love give us assurance / That we are not forgotten. Who shall say / That from the world of spirits comes no greeting, / No message of remembrance? It may be / The thoughts that visit us, we know not whence, / Sudden as inspiration, are the whispers / Of disembodied spirits, speaking to us / As friends, who wait outside a prison wall, / Through the barred windows speak to those within. / [A pause.