Translation from a Sonnet of Ronsard + 

Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies, + 

For more adornment, a full thousand years; + 

She took their cream of Beauty’s fairest dyes, + 

And shaped and tinted her above all Peers: + 

Meanwhile Love kept her dearly with his wings, + 

And underneath their shadow fill’d her eyes + 

With such a richness that the cloudy Kings + 

Of high Olympus utter’d slavish sighs. + 

When from the Heavens I saw her first descend, + 

My heart took fire, and only burning pains, + 

They were my pleasures⁠—they my Life’s sad end; + 

Love pour’d her beauty into my warm veins. + 