Canto

 1     1|     peerless charms,~(How often human judgment wanders wide)!~
 2     3|      with Spain.~Paunch-deep in human blood shall steeds advance~
 3     5|         Pest~Such poison in the human heart has shed,~That still '
 4     6|   myrtle-tree her every deed,~A human myrtle hears, and treachery,~
 5     6|        fan.~ ~ LXIV~One, with a human shape and feet, his crest,~
 6     7|         renowned, and more than human line,~Destined the sun in
 7     8|          Of these, was first in human form arrayed:~For much his
 8     8|       waste not only herds, but human haunts,~Farm-house and town,
 9     8|        sudden rain,~Which haply human art had not allayed.~Wise
10    10|        how fallible and vain~Is human judgment, dimmed by clouds
11    11|        for the impious enemy~Of human nature, taught the bolt
12    11|      thou find place within the human heart?~Through thee is martial
13    15|    spread,~And every ditch with human blood was red.~ ~ LI~Caligorant
14    15|       and to prey,~For food, on human bodies; feeding on~Poor
15    16|         impious king alone with human blood,~-- Lord of the impious
16    16|   tokens there~Of cruelty, sees human members strown.~-- No more --
17    18| Stagnant, and penned in pool by human skill,~Which, when the opposing
18    20|  calamity.~Next, uninhabited by human kind,~This shore received
19    20|    deprived of all humanity~Are human bosoms in this cruel land,~
20    22|    buckler, which, too sore~For human sufferance, dazed the astonished
21    23|     alone might boast to be,~In human form, without humanity;~ ~
22    27|         Spain and Afric and all human kind;~Ne'er will I turn."
23    31|     sees, though undiscerned~Of human eye, we can support in peace.~
24    32|        delay.~ ~ XLI~"If of all human sins of deepest dye~Be fell
25    33|       crimson dye.~Flooded with human gore seems every drain;~
26    33|        and ruin go,~And nothing human or divine escape.~The league'
27    35|       That whence conveyed were human lives, the two~Issued upon
28    37|       is endowed with more than human might.~He than a hundred
29    38|      comes the blow,~From every human forethought far away,~'Tis
30    40|         rivers may run red with human blood,~In suchlike combat,
31    40|       late to save him deem all human aid.~ ~ XXVII~Throughout
32    41|       they descend, but none~Of human kind they see; and only
33    42|       knight described;~Through human wilfulness -- which aye
34    43|         Not good alike is every human breast.~I know not if of
35    43|     holy wight,~Nor is in other human medicine found,~His church
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