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Ah well can I the day recall when first	A
The conflict fierce of love I felt and said	B
If this be love how hard it is to bear	C
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With eyes still fixed intent upon the ground	D
I saw but her whose artless innocence	E
Triumphant took possession of this heart	F
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Ah Love how badly hast thou governed me	G
Why should affection so sincere and pure	H
Bring with it such desire such suffering	I
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Why not serene and full and free from guile	J
But sorrow laden and lamenting sore	K
Should joy so great into my heart descend	L
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O tell me tender heart that sufferest so	M
Why with that thought such anguish should be blent	L
Compared with which all other thoughts were naught	L
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That thought that ever present in the day	L
That in the night more vivid still appeared	L
When all things round in sweet sleep seemed to rest	L
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Thou restless both with joy and misery	G
Didst with thy constant throbbings weary so	M
My breast as panting in my bed I lay	L
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And when worn out with grief and weariness	N
In sleep my eyes I closed ah no relief	O
It gave so broken and so feverish	P
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How brightly from the depths of darkness then	Q
The lovely image rose and my closed eyes	R
Beneath their lids their gaze upon it fed	L
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O what delicious impulses diffused	L
My weary frame with sweet emotion filled	L
What myriad thoughts unstable and confused	L
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Were floating in my mind As through the leaves	S
Of some old grove the west wind wandering	I
A long mysterious murmur leaves behind	L
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And as I silent to their influence yield	L
What saidst thou heart when she departed who	T
Had caused thee all thy throbs and suffering	I
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No sooner had I felt within the heat	L
Of love's first flame than with it flew away	L
The gentle breeze that fanned it into life	U
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Sleepless I lay until the dawn of day	L
The steeds that were to leave me desolate	L
Their hoofs were beating at my father's gate	L
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And I in mute suspense poor timid fool	V
With eye that vainly would the darkness pierce	W
And eager ear intent lay listening	I
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That voice to hear if for the last time I	X
Might catch the accents from those lovely lips	Y
The voice alone all else forever lost	L
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How many vulgar tones my doubtful ear	Z
Would smite with deep disgust inspiring me	G
With doubt tormented holding hard my breath	A2
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And when at last that voice into my heart	L
Descended passing sweet and when the sound	L
Of horses and of wheels had died away	L
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In utter desolation then my head	L
I in my pillow buried closed my eyes	R
And pressed my hand against my heart and sighed	L
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Then listlessly my trembling knees across	B2
The silent chamber dragging I exclaimed	L
'Nothing on earth can interest me more '	-
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The bitter recollection cherishing	I
Within my breast to every voice my heart	L
To every face insensible remained	L
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Long I remained in hopeless sorrow drowned	L
As when the heavens far and wide their showers	C2
Incessant pour upon the fields around	L
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Nor had I Love thy cruel power known	D2
A boy of eighteen summers flown until	E2
That day when I thy bitter lesson learned	L
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When I each pleasure held in scorn nor cared	L
The shining stars to see or meadows green	F2
Or felt the charm of holy morning light	L
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The love of glory too no longer found	L
An echo in my irresponsive breast	L
That once the love of beauty with it shared	L
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My favorite studies I neglected quite	L
And those things vain appeared compared with which	G2
I used to think all other pleasures vain	H2
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Ah how could I have changed so utterly	G
How could one passion all the rest destroy	I2
Indeed what helpless mortals are we all	J2
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My heart my only comfort was and with	K2
That heart in conference perpetual	L2
A constant watch upon my grief to keep	M2
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My eye still sought the ground or in itself	N2
Absorbed shrank from encountering the glance	O2
Of lovely or unlovely countenance	E
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The stainless image fearing to disturb	P2
So faithfully reflected in my breast	L
As winds disturb the mirror of the lake	Q2
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And that regret that I could not enjoy	I2
Such happiness which weighs upon the mind	L
And turns to poison pleasure that has passed	L
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Did still its thorn within my bosom lodge	R2
As I the past recalled but shame indeed	L
Left not its cruel sting within this heart	L
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To heaven to you ye gentle souls I swear	C
No base desire intruded on my thought	L
But with a pure and sacred flame I burned	L
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That flame still lives and that affection pure	H
Still in my thought that lovely image breathes	S2
From which save heavenly I no other joy	I2
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Have ever known my only comfort now	T2

Count Giacomo Leopardi

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