Love and the gentle heart are one thing,
just as the poet says in his verse,
each from the other one as well divorced
as reason from the mind-s reasoning.
Nature craves love, and then creates love king,
and makes the heart a palace where he-ll stay,
perhaps a shorter or a longer day,
breathing quietly, gently slumbering.
Then beauty in a virtuous woman-s face
makes the eyes yearn, and strikes the heart,
so that the eyes- desire-s reborn again,
and often, rooting there with longing, stays,
Till love, at last, out of its dreaming starts.
Woman-s moved likewise by a virtuous man.
Love And The Gentle Heart
Dante Alighieri
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