Part II — The Europeans

Dante

```

O Dante Alighieri,

O poet of knowledge vast,

In the bosom of ceaseless time

'The Divine Comedy' must last.

Beatrice, the only fount

Of your inspiration-light.

The exile of fourteen years

Had failed to blight your might.

And bold and gold were you;

Politics high and stark,

Poetry matchless, free

In you alone we mark. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Philosopher-thinkers: The power-towers of the mind and Poet-seers: the fragrance-hours of the heart in the West, Agni Press, 1998
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