Petrarch - Come va 'l mondo! or mi diletta e piace lyrics

HE BLESSES LAURA FOR HER VIRTUE How goes the world! now please me and delight What most displeased me: now I see and feel My trials were vouchsafed me for my weal, That peace eternal should brief war requite. O hopes and wishes, ever fond and slight, In lovers most, which oftener harm than heal! Worse had she yielded to my warm appeal Whom Heaven has welcomed from the grave's dark night. But blind love and my dull mind so misled, I sought to trespa** even by main force Where to have won my precious soul were dead. Blessèd be she who shaped mine erring course To better port, by turns who curb'd and lured My bold and pa**ionate will where safety was secured. Macgregor. Alas! this changing world! my present joy Was once my grief's dark source, and now I feel My sufferings pa**'d were but my soul to heal Its fearful warfare—peace's soft decoy. Poor human wishes! Hope, thou fragile toy To lovers oft! my woe had met its seal, Had she but hearken'd to my love's appeal, Who, throned in heaven, hath fled this world's alloy. My blinded love, and yet more stubborn mind, Resistless urged me to my bosom's shame, And where my soul's destruction I had met: But blessèd she who bade life's current find A holier course, who still'd my spirit's flame With gentle hope that soul might triumph yet. Wollaston.