38. Wherein He Rails Against the Mirror That Absorbs Her to His Neglect -
WHEREIN HE RAILS AGAINST THE MIRROR THAT ABSORBS HER TO HIS NEGLECT
The gold and pearls, vermilion flowers and pale,
Her various charms that should in winter pass
Withered with frost, more permanent than brass
Endure, more sharp than arrows pour a hail
Of poison on my heart: so my days fail
And fade, for grief puts flesh beneath the grass;
But most I blame that sweet tyrannical glass,
Thy mirror of delight, thy holy grail!
This on my lord imposed the silent seal,
Lord Love that trembled, since to thy desire,
Bounded by self, he could make no appeal —
That mirror dipped in Hell's lake and Hell's fire,
Dyed in perpetual Lethe, from whose sinning
My death springs, my death takes its dark beginning.
The gold and pearls, vermilion flowers and pale,
Her various charms that should in winter pass
Withered with frost, more permanent than brass
Endure, more sharp than arrows pour a hail
Of poison on my heart: so my days fail
And fade, for grief puts flesh beneath the grass;
But most I blame that sweet tyrannical glass,
Thy mirror of delight, thy holy grail!
This on my lord imposed the silent seal,
Lord Love that trembled, since to thy desire,
Bounded by self, he could make no appeal —
That mirror dipped in Hell's lake and Hell's fire,
Dyed in perpetual Lethe, from whose sinning
My death springs, my death takes its dark beginning.
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