She who has been my love of all the world,
dying long ago, left me alone to learn
out of my loss of her something of God.
I had no other teacher of the heart
but books; Augustine, Virgil, Bernard gave
light to the pressure of my love for her,
She who has been my love of all the world,
dying long ago, left me alone to learn
out of my loss of her something of God.
I had no other teacher of the heart
but books; Augustine, Virgil, Bernard gave
light to the pressure of my love for her,
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