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Love's Loadstone. Second Reading.

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Non so se s' l' immaginata luce.     I know not if it be the fancied light             Which every man or more or less doth feel;             Or if the mind and memory reveal             Some other beauty for the heart's delight;     Or if within the soul the vision bright             Of her celestial home once more doth steal,             Drawing our better thoughts with pure appeal             To the true Good above all mortal sight:     This light I long for and unguided seek;             This fire that burns my heart, I cannot find;             Nor know the way, though 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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"Non so se s' l' immaginata luce...."

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