Petrarch - Dolci durezze e placide repulse lyrics

HE OWES HIS OWN SALVATION TO THE VIRTUOUS CONDUCT OF LAURA. O sweet severity, repulses mild, With chasten'd love, and tender pity fraught; Graceful rebukes, that to mad pa**ion taught Becoming mastery o'er its wishes wild; Speech dignified, in which, united, smiled All courtesy, with purity of thought; Virtue and beauty, that uprooted aught Of baser temper had my heart defiled: Eyes, in whose glance man is beatified— Awful, in pride of virtue, to restrain Aspiring hopes that justly are denied, Then prompt the drooping spirit to sustain! These, beautiful in every change, supplied Health to my soul, that else were sought in vain. Dacre.