Bright ball of flame that through the gloom of even

The winds of heaven mix foreverWith a sweet emotion;Nothing in the world is single;All things by a law divineIn another’s being mingle-Why not I with thine?See, the mountains kiss high heaven,And the waves clasp one another;No sister flower could be forgivenIf it disdained its brother;And the sunlight clasps the earth,And the moonbeams kiss the sea;…

Finding a purse, then threw away his rope;The owner, coming to reclaim his pelf,The halter found; and used it. So is HopeChanged for Despair–one laid upon the shelf,We take the other. Under Heaven’s high copeFortune is God—all you endure and doDepends on circumstance as much as you.

In which thou sittest sole, as in my mind,Giving a voice to its mysterious waves–

Wandering companionlessAmong the stars that have a different birth, –And ever changing, like a joyless eyeThat finds no object worth its constancy?

When the cloud is scattered,The rainbow’s glory is shed;When the lute is broken,Sweet tones are remembered not;When the lips have spoken,Loved accents are soon forgot.As music and splendorSurvive not the lamp and the lute,The heart’s echoes renderNo song when the spirit is mute:–No song but sad dirges,Like the wind through a ruined cell,Or the mournful…

Or think that ill for ill should be repaid,Who barter wrong for wrong, until the exchangeRuins the merchants of such thriftless trade,Visit the tower of Vado, and unlearnSuch bitter faith beside Marenghi’s urn.II.A massy tower yet overhangs the town,A scattered group of ruined dwellings now……III.Another scene are wise Etruria knewIts second ruin through internal strifeAnd…