Translations. - Milton's Italian Poems. Iii. Canzone.
Ladies, and youths that in their favour bask, With mocking smiles come round me: Prithee, why, Why dost thou with an unknown language cope, Love-riming? Whence thy courage for the task? Tell us--so never frustrate be thy hope, And the best thought still to thy thinking fly! Thus me they mock: Thee other streams, they cry, Thee other shores, another sea demands Upon whose verdant strands Are budding, even this moment, for thy hair Immortal guerdon, bays that will not die: An over-burden on thy back why bear?-- Song, I will tell thee; thou for me reply: My lady saith--and her word is my heart-- This is Love's mother-tongue, and fits his part.
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