Sonnet XXXVI.
Quel che 'n Tessaglia ebbe le man s pronte. SOME HAVE WEPT FOR THEIR WORST ENEMIES, BUT LAURA DEIGNS HIM NOT A SINGLE TEAR. He who for empire at Pharsalia threw, Reddening its beauteous plain with civil gore, As Pompey's corse his conquering soldiers bore, Wept when the well-known features met his view: The shepherd youth, who fierce Goliath slew, Had long rebellious children to deplore, And bent, in generous grief, the brave Saul o'er His shame and fall when proud Gilboa knew: But you, whose cheek with pity never paled, Who still have shields at hand to guard you well Against Love's bow, which shoots its darts in vain, Behold me by a thousand deaths assail'd, And yet no tears of thine compassion tell, But in those bright eyes anger and disdain. MACGREGOR.
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"Quel che 'n Tessaglia ebbe le man s pronte...."
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