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To Vittoria Colonna.Brazen Gifts For Golden.

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Per esser manco almen.     Seeking at least to be not all unfit             For thy sublime and boundless courtesy,             My lowly thoughts at first were fain to try             What they could yield for grace so infinite.     But now I know my unassisted wit             Is all too weak to make me soar so high;             For pardon, lady, for this fault I cry,             And wiser still I grow remembering it.     Yea, well I see what folly 'twere to think             That largess dropped from thee like dews from heaven             Could e'er be paid by work so frail as mine!     To nothingness my art and talent sink;             He fails who from his mortal stores hath given             A thousandfold to match one gift divine.

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