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"E drizzeremo gli occhi al Primo Amore. " -- Dante. / "Ma trovo peso non da le mie braccia. " -- Petrarca.
If I could trust mine own self with your fate, / Shall I not rather trust it in God's hand? / Without Whose Will one lily doth not stand, / Nor sparrow fall at his appointed date; / Who numbereth the innumerable sand, / Who weighs the wind and water with a weight, / To Whom the world is neither small nor great, / Whose knowledge foreknew every plan we planned. / Searching my heart for all that touches you, / I find there only love and love's goodwill / Helpless to help and impotent to do, / Of understanding dull, of sight most dim; / And therefore I commend you back to Him / Whose love your love's capacity can fill.