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A beautiful merging severed in Laura, / O immortal soul, O glorious spirit, / why did you leave a body so beauteous / and why to that soul have you bid farewell?
But now it has penetrated my reason / that you endure so rigorous a divorce / so that on the last day you can with joy / once again become eternally joined.
Begin your rapid flight, O fortunate soul, / and released now from your beauteous prison, / leaving its rosy hue turned into ice, / rise up to be crowned by luminous stars: / for all of boundless heaven is required / so that you will not miss your beauteous home.