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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - Ideal Love.

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Il vero amante.     He who loves truly, grows in force and might;             For beauty and the image of his love             Expand his spirit: whence he burns to prove             Adventures high, and holds all perils light.     If thus a lady's love dilate the knight,             What glories and what joy all joys above             Shall not the heavenly splendour, joined by love             Unto our flesh-imprisoned soul, excite?     Once freed, she would become one sphere immense             Of love, power, wisdom, filled with Deity,             Elate with wonders of the eternal Sense.     But we like sheep and wolves war ceaselessly:             That love we never seek, that light intense,             Which would exalt us to infinity.

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