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The Transfiguration Of Beauty: A Dialogue With Love.

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Dimmi di grazia, amor.     Nay, prithee tell me, Love, when I behold             My lady, do mine eyes her beauty see             In truth, or dwells that loveliness in me             Which multiplies her grace a thousandfold?     Thou needs must know; for thou with her of old             Comest to stir my soul's tranquillity;             Yet would I not seek one sigh less, or be             By loss of that loved flame more simply cold.--     The beauty thou discernest, all is hers;             But grows in radiance as it soars on high             Through mortal eyes unto the soul above:     'Tis there transfigured; for the soul confers             On what she holds, her own divinity:             And this transfigured beauty wins thy love.

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