Petrarch - Sonnet CCXXVII lyrics

HE LAMENTS HIS ABSENCE FROM LAURA AND COLONNA, THE ONLY OBJECTS OF HIS AFFECTION. My lord and friend! thoughts, wishes, all inclined My heart to visit one so dear to me, But Fortune—can she ever worse decree?— Held me in hand, misled, or kept behind. Since then the dear desire Love taught my mind But leads me to a d**h I did not see, And while my twin lights, wheresoe'er I be, Are still denied, by day and night I've pined. Affection for my lord, my lady's love, The bonds have been wherewith in torments long I have been bound, which round myself I wove. A Laurel green, a Column fair and strong, This for three lustres, that for three years more In my fond breast, nor wish'd it free, I bore. Macgregor.