The tender love-making, our harmony

The tender love-making, our harmony
of thought, dear union miraculously
ordained by God for a peace our souls and
bodies wove, knotted in exquisite joy.

I sing this lovely art and its maker--
though moved by far other hope, eager, keen,
would seek dissolution before I age,
for him, for pleasure no more for me here.

Walled up in this evil prison, hated
like an enemy, my soul is confused,
here is no life, there yearned-for no flight.

I would know splendor, I would melt into
the light which gave light to my existence:
it was only through his life I knew life.
An image of the Italian text from Visconti's 1840 edition
Notes:
V XV:15. From Bullock A1:29:17. See also R LXVII:185. Translation: Thérault, 181-2. Key

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