When I write I hope to see my Sun in

When I write I hope to see my Sun in
the green fields and blue skies of Paradise,
I know he's going to be dead in earth
for a long time--you say so kindly I'm

a second Aurora to my sweet Sun,
my alluring hunter--but if he could,
as he once did, disperse dark clouds, haunting
shadows, make me as serene as now I'm

troubled, to see him again ensnared by
life free us and trap those who hurt us--so
effortlessly with his undefeated

hand, how wonderful it would be. When we
meet again beyond death, he sweet to me,
I blest in him, then call me mate to light's charioteer.

An image of the Italian text from Visconti's 1840 edition
Notes:
From V L:50. See also B A1:37:21; R LXXXVIII: 251-253. To Francesco Berni; see Reumont (p. 53); A. Virgili and Romei ("Dunque se'l cielo invidioso ed empio (1985 Rime, ed. Romei, p 85). Dated around 1526. Alludes to Aurora (i.e., Cephalus and Procris, and Phoebus Apollo). Key

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