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A Masque of Dead Florentines
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DANTE ALIGHIERI passes, in sober red habit and cowled; a tongue of fire above his brow.
Dante.
The first to speak in Florence, Florence spurn'd
My song and service. From home to outland turn'd,
I sensed God's secrets, eating salted bread.
God woke my love by death: they crown'd me, dead.
