Perhaps they laughed at Dante in his youth,
Told him that truth
Had unappealably been said
In the great masterpieces of the dead:-
Perhaps he listened and but bowed his head
In acquiescent honour, while his heart
Held natal tidings,-that a new life is the part
Of every man that's born,
A new life never lived before,
And a new expectant art;
It is the variations of the morn
That are forever, more and more,
The single dawning of the single truth.
So answers Dante to the heart of youth!
The New Life
Witter Bynner
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