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How could I forsake loving you
once, at last, I'd found you, divine?
Is there cause without effect?
Or promise without fulfillment?
Forasmuch as it is plain, you are sublime serenity
most perfect in the heavens
as ever beheld by the wheel of life
in its great eternal winding.
My love, do then wonder why I sought you?
What need is there to show my faith,
when every part of you
is witness to my captivation?
Turn your eyes inward, to yourself
and find within, and in them,
not only loves delicate possibilities
but the desire to surrender to them
And amidst my gentle care
which bespeaks, I only live
to know, and to have you nigh
faith my love, for you I would die.
-Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
once, at last, I'd found you, divine?
Is there cause without effect?
Or promise without fulfillment?
Forasmuch as it is plain, you are sublime serenity
most perfect in the heavens
as ever beheld by the wheel of life
in its great eternal winding.
My love, do then wonder why I sought you?
What need is there to show my faith,
when every part of you
is witness to my captivation?
Turn your eyes inward, to yourself
and find within, and in them,
not only loves delicate possibilities
but the desire to surrender to them
And amidst my gentle care
which bespeaks, I only live
to know, and to have you nigh
faith my love, for you I would die.
-Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz