Dante Alighieri

In that book which is

My memory...

On the first page

That is the chapter when

I first met you

Appear the words...

Here begins a new life.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own

And made his lordship so familiar.

And his will is our peace.

I saw within Its depth how It conceives

all things in a single volume bound by Love,

of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

She is the sum of nature's universe.

To her perfection all of beauty tends.

When I had journeyed half of our life's way,

I found myself within a shadowed forest,

for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

Love and the gracious heart are a single thing...

one can no more be without the other

than the reasoning mind without its reason.

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.