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Who by short lived joys by anguish long obtain,

And whom the pleasures of a rival pain.

And there consummate Beaty shone,combined

With all the pureness of angel-mind

O blind of intellect!Of what avail

Are your long toils in this sublunar vail?

When turning around I saw the power advance

That breaks the gloomy graves' eternal trance.

What is renown? A gleam of transient light,

That soon an envious cloud involves in night.

Then shall I see her as I first beheld,

But lovlier far,and by herself excelled.

--by Petrarch(1304-1374). I Trionfi translates The Triumph