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Michelangelo - Sonnet XXXII - If love is chaste, if pity comes from heaven
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Michelangelo – Sonnets [translated by Elizabeth Jennings]
Sonnet XXXII
If love is chaste, if pity comes from heaven,
If fortune, good or ill, is shared between
Two equal loves, and if one wish can govern
Two hearts, and nothing evil intervene:
If one soul joins two bodies fast for ever,
And if, on the same wings, these two can fly,
And if one dart of love can pierce and sever
The vital organs of both equally:
If both love one another with the same
Passion, and if each other's good is sought
By both, if taste and pleasure and desire
Bind such a faithful love-knot, who can claim,
Either with envy, scorn, contempt or ire,
The power to untie so fast a knot?