th heart and mind.
I praise it more than other tongues will tell;
And, for advice to such as do not know,
Swear that without it none can labour well.
Yet oh! for one like Him I learned but now,
Who'd cry to me as by Bethesda's shore:
Take thy clothes, Benvenuto, rise and go!
Credo I'd sing, Salve reginas pour
And Paternosters; alms I'd then bestow
Morn after morn on blind folk, lame, and poor.
Ah me! how many a time my cheek must grow
Blanched by those lilies! Shall I then forswear
Florence and France through them for evermore? 注释标题 'Un nostro parente.' He says above that he wrote the Capitolo on the leaves of his Bible.
If to the hospital I ce, and fair
Find the Annunziata limned. I'll fly:
Else shall I show myself a brute beast there. 注释标题 Gabriel holds the lily in Italian paintings when he salutes the Virgin Mary with 'Ave Virgo!'
These words flout not Her worshipped sanctity,
Nor those Her lilies, glorious, holy, pure,
The which illumine earth and heaven high!
But for I find at every coign obscure
Base lilies which spread hooks where flowers should blow
Needs must I fear lest these to ruin lure. 注释标题 That is, he finds everywhere in Italy the arms of the Farnesi.
To think how many walk like me in woe!
Born what, how slaved to serve that hateful sign!
Souls lively,
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