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“The chief imagination of Christendom,
Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself
That he has made that hollow face of his
More plain to the minds eye than any face
But that of Christ.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Then Englands ground, farewell. Sweet soil, adieu,
My mother and my nurse that bears me yet!
Where eer I wander, boast of this I can:
Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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