Rossetti Archive Textual Transcription
Document Title: Threefold Homage
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Date of Composition: 1868
Type of Manuscript: corrected fair copy
Scribe: DGR
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Manuscript Addition: unprinted
Editorial Description: Paull Baum's pencil notation at the foot of the manuscript.
- Was I most born to paint your sovereign face,
- Or most to sing it, or most to love it, dear?
- Full sweet the hope that unborn eye & ear
- Through me might/could may guess the secret of your grace.
- Yet [?] neath song & picture must I trace/ Yet fain neath/in song or/ or picture would I trace/ I trace
- Ah! yet this speech/ One/ These words: Ah, gazer s, listener s think s not here
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Added Text Alas! Yet ah! neath song & every picture truth might I trace
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Added TextAnd note beside each song: “Let none think here
- To breathe indeed this beauty's rapturous atmosphere,
- To apprehend this body or soul's embrace!”
- Faint shadow of you at best I weave; except
- 10That innermost image all unseen, which still
- Proves me at heart your beauty's crowned adept
- And Yet was this nought, our transport to fulfill our hope's high dowered day to fill ,—
- That near o'er us, while we kissed, with answering thrill,
- Two Muses held Love's hands, & smiled, & wept?
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