Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts. Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

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The subject of the preceding Canto is continued in this. ↩

The story of the Brazen Bull of Perillus is thus told in the Gesta Romanorum , Tale 48, Swan’s Tr. :⁠—