Caelica - Sonnet 64

Caelica, when I did see you every day,
I saw so many worths so well united,
As in this union while but one did play,
All others eyes both wondred and delighted:
Whence I conceav'd you of some heavenly mould,
Since Love, and Vertue, noble Fame and Pleasure,
Containe in one no earthly metall could,
Such enemies are flesh, and blood to measure.
And since my fall, though I now onely see
Your backe, while all the world beholds your face,
This shadow still shewes miracles to me,
And still I thinke your heart a heavenly place:
For what before was fil'd by me alone,
I now discerne hath roome for every one.
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