Samuel Waddington, comp. The Sonnets of Europe. 1888.
The Sonnet of the MountainMellin de Saint-Gelais (c. 14911558)
Translated by Austin Dobson
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I do but mete mine own distress thereby:
High is their head, and my desire is high;
Firm is their foot, my faith is certain too.
From me too breaks betimes the wistful sigh;
And as from them the brooks and streamlets hie,
So from mine eyes the tears run down anew.
As many loves within me see the day,
And all my heart for pasture ground divide.
And ’twixt us now nought diverse is but this—
In them the snows, in me the fires abide.