Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
On a Dead Child http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/2930.html, st. 1 (1890). <br class="br">Poetry
“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is little fault!”
— Dante Alighieri, book Purgatorio
Canto III, lines 8–9 (tr. C. E. Norton).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
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Context: True, thy fault is great,
But we are many that will plead for thee;
We and our sisters, dwellers in the streams
That murmur blithely to the joyous mood,
And dolefully to sadness. Not a nook
In darkest woods but some of us are there,
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