LIII + 

The Muse appeared, when love passed by + 

And my dark soul to light was brought; + 

Free, I renewed the idolatry + 

Of harmony enshrining thought. + 

I write, and anguish flies away, + 

Nor doth my absent pen portray + 

Around my stanzas incomplete + 

Young ladies’ faces and their feet. + 

Extinguished ashes do not blaze⁠— + 

I mourn, but tears I cannot shed⁠— + 

Soon, of the tempest which hath fled + 

Time will the ravages efface⁠— + 

When that time comes, a poem I’ll strive + 

To write in cantos twenty-five. + 