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				        <title>Proserpina (For a Picture) (Texas MS, Italian version)</title>
				        <author>Dante Gabriel Rossetti</author>
				
				
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				        <edition>1</edition>
				        <copyright>© Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of
					Texas at Austin</copyright>
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					          <title>Proserpina</title>
					          <author>DGR</author>
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						            <date compdate="1877">1877</date>
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						            <collation>1 leaf, verso blank</collation>
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						            <location>Harry Ransom Humanities Center, the University of Texas at Austin</location>
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							              <stock>white smooth paper unlined</stock>
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							              <actual>7 1/16 x 4 1/2 inches</actual>
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				        <head>Commentary</head>
				        <section type="intro">
					          <head>Introduction</head>
					          <p>DGR wrote the two sonnets to accompany his painting, which dates from 1872,
						early in 1877, as his own note on the picture indicates. The Italian sonnet
						was written first, then the English version came as its translation.</p>
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							              <foreign lang="italian">Proserpina.</foreign>
						            </hi>
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				        </divheader>
				        <lg n="1" type="octave">
					          <l n="1">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Lungi è la luce che in sù
							questo muro</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="2" indent="1">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Rifrange appena, un breve istante scorta</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="3" indent="1">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Del rio palazzo alla soprana porta.</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="4">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Lungi quei fiori d'Enna, O lido oscuro,</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="5">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Dal frutto tuo fatal che omai m'è
						duro.</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="6" indent="1">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Lungi quel cielo dal tartareo manto</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="7" indent="1">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Che quì mi cuopre: e lungi ahi lungi ahi
							quanto</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="8">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Le notti che saràn dai dì che
							furo.</foreign>
					          </l>
				        </lg>
				        <lg n="2" type="sestet">
					          <l n="9">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Lungi da me mi sento; e ognor sognando</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="10" indent="1">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Cerco e ricerco, e resto ascoltatrice;</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="11" indent="1">
						            <foreign lang="italian">E qualche cuore a qualche anima dice,</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="12">
						            <foreign lang="italian">(Di cui mi giunge il suon da quando in
						quando,</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="13">
						            <foreign lang="italian">Continuamente insieme
						sospirando,)&#8212;</foreign>
					          </l>
					          <l n="14" indent="1">
						            <foreign lang="italian">&#8220;Oimè per te, Proserpina
							infelice!&#8221;</foreign>
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