Sonnet LXIV.
Io amai sempre, ed amo forte ancora. HE LOVES, AND WILL ALWAYS LOVE, THE SPOT AND THE HOUR IN WHICH HE FIRST BECAME ENAMOURED OF LAURA. I always loved, I love sincerely yet, And to love more from day to day shall learn, The charming spot where oft in grief I turn When Love's severities my bosom fret: My mind to love the time and hour is set Which taught it each low care aside to spurn; She too, of loveliest face, for whom I burn Bids me her fair life love and sin forget. Who ever thought to see in friendship join'd, On all sides with my suffering heart to cope, The gentle enemies I love so well? Love now is paramount my heart to bind, And, save that with desire increases hope, Dead should I lie alive where I would dwell. MACGREGOR.
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"Io amai sempre, ed amo forte ancora...."
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