If the words belong in the poem and ‘Beatrice’ is the heavenly being you have adopted from your friend and mentor Dante, well and good, I say no more. But if Beatrice is me, and if when you wrote those words you were pleading with me to save you—to come and save you from death—I must tell you, first, that the message did not reach me, telepathically or otherwise, and, second, that even if it had reached me I would probably not have come.
