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REPLY TO A CHAPTER OF JACOPO DA LENTINO.
Ways apt and new to sing of love I'd find, / Forcing from her hard heart full many a sigh, / And re-enkindle in her frozen mind / Desires a thousand, passionate and high; / O'er her fair face would see each swift change pass, / See her fond eyes at length where pity reigns, / As one who sorrows when too late, alas! / For his own error and another's pains; / See the fresh roses edging that fair snow / Move with her breath, that ivory descried, / Which turns to marble him who sees it near; / See all, for which in this brief life below / Myself I weary not but rather pride / That Heaven for later times has kept me here.
MACGREGOR.