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370 LV.

These are four minds, which, like the elements,

Might furnish forth creation:—Italy!

Time, which hath wronged thee with ten thousand rents

Of thine imperial garment, shall deny

And hath denied, to every other sky,

Spirits which soar from ruin:—thy Decay

Is still impregnate with divinity,

Which gilds it with revivifying ray;

Such as the great of yore, Canova is to-day.