Sunday, December 18, 2005

Joyous In Love, I Make My Aim

Joyous in love, I make my aim
forever deeper in Joy to be.
the perfect Joy's the goal for me:
so the most perfect lady I claim.
I've caught her eyes. All must exclaim:
the loveliest heard or seen is she...

You know I'd never base my fame
on brags. If ever we're to see
a flowering Joy, this Joy, burst free,
should bear such fruit no man can name,
lifting among the others a flame
that brightens in obscurity.

(by-Guilhem IX of Poitu 1071-1126)

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