IV
When I look at the sorrows
of your strong martyrdom,
My love, I moan and sigh...
as a last remedy for death.
I try to lose you,
lose with you the annoying life
and, seeing her for you more than lost,
of the great pleasure that I feel,
I live again... and my torment grows.
Luis Barahona de Soto
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