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                <title>Proserpina (Per un Quadro) (fair copy, Boston Public Library Manuscript)</title>
                <author>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</author>

                
                
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                    <author>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</author>
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                    <head>Introduction</head>
                    <p>This fair copy manuscript seems to be the earliest we have, antedating even
                        the corrected copy at <xref doc="a.sonnets.prinms.rad" from="[7]">Princeton</xref>. </p>
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                    <l n="1">Lungiè la luce che in sù questo muro</l>
                    <l n="2" indent="1"> Rifrange appena, un breve istante scorta</l>
                    <l n="3" indent="1"> Del mio palazzo alla lontana porta:</l>
                    <l n="4">Lungi quei fiori d'Enna, O lido oscuro,</l>
                    <l n="5">Dal frutto tuo fatal che omai m'è duro.</l>
                    <l n="6" indent="1"> Lungi quel cielo dal funereo manto</l>
                    <l n="7" indent="1"> Che quì mi cuopre: e lungi ahi lungi ahi quanto</l>
                    <l n="8">Le notti che saràn dai dì che furo.</l>
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                <lg n="2" type="sestet">
                    <l n="9">Lungi da me mi sento; e ognor sognando</l>
                    <l n="10" indent="1"> Cerco e ricerco, e resto ascoltatrice;</l>
                    <l n="11" indent="1"> E qualche cuore a qualche anima dice,&#8212;</l>
                    <l n="12">(Di cui mi giunge il suon da quando in quando,</l>
                    <l n="13">Continuamente insieme sospirando,)&#8212;</l>
                    <l n="14" indent="1"> &#8220;Oimè per te, Proserpina
                        infelice!&#8221;</l>
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                <closer>DG Rossetti</closer>
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