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Rokeby: Canto VI.

I.
The summer sun, whose early power
Was wont to gild Matilda's bower,
And rouse her with his matin ray
Her duteous orisons to pay,
That morning sun has three times seen
The flowers unfold on Rokeby green,
But sees no more the slumbers fly
From fair Matilda's hazel eye;
That morning sun has three times broke
On Rokeby's glades of elm and oak,
But, rising from their sylvan screen,
Marks no grey turrets' glance between.
A shapeless mass lie keep and tower,
That, hissing to the morning shower,
Can but with smouldering vapour pay
The early smile of summer day.
The peasant, to his labour bound,
Pauses to view the blacken'd mound,
Striving, amid the ruin'd space,

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XI. Guido

You are the Cardinal Acciaiuoli, and you,
Abate Panciatichi—two good Tuscan names:
Acciaiuoli—ah, your ancestor it was
Built the huge battlemented convent-block
Over the little forky flashing Greve
That takes the quick turn at the foot o' the hill
Just as one first sees Florence: oh those days!
'T is Ema, though, the other rivulet,
The one-arched brown brick bridge yawns over,—yes,
Gallop and go five minutes, and you gain
The Roman Gate from where the Ema's bridged:
Kingfishers fly there: how I see the bend
O'erturreted by Certosa which he built,
That Senescal (we styled him) of your House!
I do adjure you, help me, Sirs! My blood
Comes from as far a source: ought it to end
This way, by leakage through their scaffold-planks
Into Rome's sink where her red refuse runs?
Sirs, I beseech you by blood-sympathy,
If there be any vile experiment

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For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

quote by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

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Atone-meant

Look around, Earth has quickened
After being abused n' badly sickened
She'll heal from harm men have done
Evil ones' then atone, one by one

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Medusa

Evil Gorgon, with snakes for hair
Gullible beholders turned to stone
“Take her head” Perseus did swear
“For slaying men she must atone”

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