LOVE'S JUSTIFICATION
by: Michelangelo Buonarroti
(1475-1564)
- ES! hope
may with my strong desire keep pace,
- And I be undeluded, unbetrayed:
- For if of our affections none find grace
- In sight of Heaven, then wherefore hath God made
- The world which we inhabit? Better plea
- Love cannot have, than that in loving thee
- Glory to that eternal peace is paid,
- Who such divinity to thee imparts
- As hallows and makes pure all gentle hearts.
- His hope is treacherous only whose love dies
- With beauty, which is varying every hour;
- But, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power
- Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower,
- That breathes on earth the air of paradise.
This English translation of "Love's
Justification" was composed by William
Wordsworth (1770-1850). |
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