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Sonnet CXV.

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Quando 'l voler, che con duo sproni ardenti.     HER LOOKS BOTH COMFORT AND CHECK HIM.         When, with two ardent spurs and a hard rein,     Passion, my daily life who rules and leads,     From time to time the usual law exceeds     That calm, at least in part, my spirits may gain,     It findeth her who, on my forehead plain,     The dread and daring of my deep heart reads,     And seeth Love, to punish its misdeeds,     Lighten her piercing eyes with worse disdain.     Wherefore--as one who fears the impending blow     Of angry Jove--it back in haste retires,     For great fears ever master great desires;     But the cold fire and shrinking hopes which so     Lodge in my heart, transparent as a glass,     O'er her sweet face at times make gleams of grace to pass.     MACGREGOR.

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