Fame which inveigles with its dulcet sound
Ye mortals proud, and seems to ye so fair,
An echo is, the shadow of a dream,
That at a breath dissolves and vanishes.


Canto XIV, Stanza 63. - Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)

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Fame which inveigles with its dulcet sound Ye mortals proud, and seems to ye so fair, An echo is, the shadow of a dream, That at a breath dissolves...

Fame which inveigles with its dulcet sound Ye mortals proud, and seems to ye so fair, An echo is, the shadow of a dream, That at a breath dissolves...

Fame which inveigles with its dulcet sound Ye mortals proud, and seems to ye so fair, An echo is, the shadow of a dream, That at a breath dissolves...

Fame which inveigles with its dulcet sound Ye mortals proud, and seems to ye so fair, An echo is, the shadow of a dream, That at a breath dissolves...