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If you overlook, notwithstanding, while i am faraway from you, how fond a slave i used to be in occasions earlier than, this grieving center I offer you, mine not more. thirteen popularity retains the epitaphs the place they lie; she strikes neither to entrance nor rear, simply because they're useless, and their task at an finish. 14 The Day and the evening communicate, and what they are saying is: With our speedy path we've got delivered to his demise Duke Giuliano; it truly is definitely correct that he take such vengeance on us as he has taken. That vengeance is: Now that we have positioned him to demise, so in dying he has left us in darkness, and through last his eyes has closed our personal, which not solid a brightness over earth. What could he no longer have made up of us then, if nonetheless alive? 15 Seeing i am yours, I rouse me from afar to come back close to the heaven I owe my being to. together with your attract the bait, i am attracted to you, tugged, as with hook and line negative fishes are. And, as a middle torn methods fails to teach a lot signal of existence, to you either halves are given, which leaves me poor—that's announcing: a lot an analogous. Souls, provided a decision, choose the worthiest, so now not loving you s now not existence; that is how i am pushed. i am wooden. you are wooden, yet gloriously aflame. sixteen From one all loveliness and all attract, from one, a fountain of mercy, comes my grief . . . 17 Rancorous center, merciless, pitiless, notwithstanding displaying what appears like sweetness—but the sour center! Your religion! as changeable as time, not more more likely to final than any springtime flower. Time strikes and doles itself out, hour through hour; no deadlier poison in our lives! Or say it truly is just like the sickle and we are just like the hay religion is quickly over. And no attractiveness lasts, yet, speedily as religion does, wears away, simply as your sin may have my issues fly do with us continuously because the years cross through. 18 even though shouldered from the line I selected whilst younger, i might back off now. The byways i have explored! All useless, within the trials and struggles i am between. the ocean, the mountain, and the fiery sword! Hemmed in by means of resembling those, in some way I reside. however the one absconding with my wits will not provide me go away to have a pass on the mountain street . . . 19 high quality lass or girl, they by way of nature made, bar none, have been perform purely, until eventually she made the single racking my middle with fireplace and ice this present day. No man—it hurts to claim— was once desolate as I: throes, tears, sobs, soulful sigh. for nice impact, nice reason. In grief's regardless of i am raised to heaven's peak: none ever felt, will consider, state-of-the-art pride. 20 Sweeter your face than grapes are, stewed to mush; appears like a snail had slicked it, from side to side, how it shines. Like radishes a-blush, your cheeks. tooth, candy corn buttered, row with row. On you the pope may possibly get a heavy weigh down. Your eyes! they are brown horse liniment aglow. Hair light as frizzy onions of their bin. O love me, love! in any other case you do me in. In attractiveness you are extra beauteously a beaut than gilt St. Whozis within the sac-riss-tee. Your mouth's a gunnysack of beans—but shoot! so's mine. Ain't we a few couple, you and me! Your eyebrows, smudgy black as griddle soot, twist just like the huntin' bow of a few Chinee.