The nights which still beneath one smile
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t Can La Scala's court, no doubt,Due reverence did his steps attend ;The ushers on his path would bend At ingoing as at going out ;The penmen waited on his callAt council-board, the grooms in hall. And pages hushed their laughter down,And gay squires stilled the merry stir,When he passed up the dais-chamber With set brows lordlier than a frown ;And tire-maids hidden among theseDrew close their loosened bodices. DANTE AT VERONA, Perhaps the priests, (exact to spanAll God's circumference,) if at whilesThey found him wandering in their aisles,
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