Modern Italian Poets - Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells
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page 147 of 358 (41%)
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More clearly still, proclaims it; yet with the others
Thou minglest and art silent? _Pergola._ Vanquished men Have nought to say, O captain. _Count._ This ill-fortune Thou bearest so, that thou dost show thyself Worthy a better. What's thy name? _Pergola._ A name Whose fame 't were hard to greaten, and that lays On him who bears it a great obligation. Pergola is my name. _Count._ What! thou 'rt the son Of that brave man? _Pergola._ I am he. _Count._ Come, embrace Thy father's ancient friend! Such as thou art That I was when I knew him first. Thou bringest Happy days back to me! the happy days Of hope. And take thou heart! Fortune did give A happier beginning unto me; But fortune's promises are for the brave. And soon or late she keeps them. Greet for me Thy father, boy, and say to him that I Asked it not of thee, but that I was sure This battle was not of his choosing. |
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