Questo no, rispos'io, perchè la rota Or che si sia, diss' ella, io n'ebbi onore "O no!" I cried, "the rolling spheres above That kindled first the nascent spark to love, Whatever clime your heavenly presence own'd, Had led me there by sacred instinct bound." "Whate'er you think, the honour all was mine," The vision answer'd with a smile divine; "But heedless how the blissful moments fly, You see not how Aurora climbs the sky!" BOYD's Transl. Her lover then asked her, if it would be long before he should rejoin her. Laura departed, saying: "As far as it is permitted me to know, thou wilt remain long upon earth without me" Ella già mossa, disse: Al creder mio, Tu starai in terra senza me gran tempo. Petrarch survived Laura twenty-six years. E |