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I. Love looked back as he took his flight, / And lo, his eyes were filled with tears. / Was it for love of lost delight / Love looked back as he took his flight? / Only I know while day grew night, / Turning still to the vanished years, / Love looked back as he took his flight, / And lo, his eyes were filled with tears.
II. If you were Lady Beatrice / And I the Florentine, / I'd never waste my time like this -- / If you were Lady Beatrice / I'd woo and then demand a kiss, / Nor weep like Dante here, I ween, / If you were Lady Beatrice / And I the Florentine. / (Written in a copy of "La Vita Nuova". For M. C. S.)