Guarini untitled verse

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Il pastor fido
by Giovanni Battista Guarini
139009Il pastor fidoGiovanni Battista Guarini
Original Italian English Translation

“La misera tacendo
Per soverchio desio tutta si strugge;
Così perde belta, se'l foco dura,
E perdendo stagion, perde ventura”

In silent grief absorb'd, the wretched maid,
     By passions too refined, too ardent, lost,
Lets time unheeded pass, her beauties fade,
     And with the present hour her future hopes are lost.