Littell's Living Age/Volume 149/Issue 1921/Em quanto quiz Fortuna que tivesse

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Littell's Living Age by Camoens, translated by Richard F. Burton Volume 149, Issue 1921 : Em quanto quiz Fortuna que tivesse

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Originally published in Athenæum.

Em quanto quiz Fortuna que tivesse

While Fortune willèd that for me remain      Some grateful esp'rance of some glad content,      The joys of gentle thought a longing lent To pen life's pleasures and depaint its pain; But Cupid, fearing lest such writ contain      Lere for the judgments Love hath never shent,      With darkling tortures 'gan my wits torment That of his treach'ry I should ne'er complain. O ye, whom Love's obligeance may subject      To divers wills! whenso ye read thereof           Bound in one booklet cases so diverse, (Which all be truthful; facts without defect,)      Learn that according as ye have the love,           So shall ye have the lore, of this my verse.