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Last Line: The gende music of her speech and mirth
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Variant Title(s): Wyatt's Complaint Upon Love To Reason, Wth Love's Answe
Subject(s): Beauty


IN what celestial sphere, by whom inspired,
Did Nature find the cast from which she drew
This lovely face wherein she hath aspired
To manifest below what Heaven can do?
Upon the breeze these tresses of pure gold
What goddess of the woods, what water-fay
Hath lavished thus? What other heart could hold
These virtues which have made my life their prey?
Of godly beauty he is unaware
Who hath not gazed into my Lady's eyes,
Nor gathered her sweet glances here on earth;
He knoweth not Love's Hell nor Paradise
Who never heard her sighs as light as air,
The gende music of her speech and mirth.





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