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Sonnet CI.

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Io canterei d' Amor s novamente.     REPLY TO A Sonnet OF JACOPO DA LENTINO.         Ways apt and new to sing of love I'd find,     Forcing from her hard heart full many a sigh,     And re-enkindle in her frozen mind     Desires a thousand, passionate and high;     O'er her fair face would see each swift change pass,     See her fond eyes at length where pity reigns,     As one who sorrows when too late, alas!     For his own error and another's pains;     See the fresh roses edging that fair snow     Move with her breath, that ivory descried,     Which turns to marble him who sees it near;     See all, for which in this brief life below     Myself I weary not but rather pride     That Heaven for later times has kept me here.     MACGREGOR.

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