Note 317 — THE PROPHECY OF DANTE.
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"Thy Godlike crime was to be kind, To render with thy precepts less The sum of human wretchedness ... But baffled as thou wert from high ... Thou art a symbol and a sign To Mortals."
Prometheus, iii. lines 35, seq.; vide ante, p. 50.
Compare, too, the Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, stanza xvi. var ii.—
"He suffered for kind acts to men."
Poetical Works, 1900, iii. 312.]