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Love's Loadstone. First Reading.

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No so s' la desiata luce.     I know not if it be the longed-for light             Of her first Maker which the spirit feels;             Or if a time-old memory reveals             Some other beauty for the heart's delight;     Or fame or dreams beget that vision bright,             Sweet to the eyes, which through the bosom steals,             Leaving I know not what that wounds and heals,             And now perchance hath made me weep outright.     Be this what this may be, 'tis this I seek:             Nor guide have I; nor know I where to find             That burning fire; yet some one seems to lead.     This, since I saw thee, lady, makes me weak;             A bitter-sweet sways here and there my mind,             And sure I am thine eyes this mischief breed.

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