Sonnet LXXIII.
Quando giugne per gli occhi al cor profondo. HE DESCRIBES THE STATE OF TWO LOVERS, AND RETURNS IN THOUGHT TO HIS OWN SUFFERINGS. When reaches through the eyes the conscious heart Its imaged fate, all other thoughts depart; The powers which from the soul their functions take A dead weight on the frame its limbs then make. From the first miracle a second springs, At times the banish'd faculty that brings, So fleeing from itself, to some new seat, Which feeds revenge and makes e'en exile sweet. Thus in both faces the pale tints were rife, Because the strength which gave the glow of life On neither side was where it wont to dwell-- I on that day these things remember'd well, Of that fond couple when each varying mien Told me in like estate what long myself had been. MACGREGOR.
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