Of the Abbe de S A D E. 137 



Valle, che de' lamenti ?nieife y plena ; 

 Fiume che fpejfo del mio pianger crefci ; 

 Ferejilve/tre, vaghi augelli, e pefci, 

 Che I ' una e I ' altra verde riva affrena ; 



Aria de' mieifofpir calda e ferena j 

 Dolce fentier, che si amaro riefci ; 

 Colle, che mi piacejli, or mi rincrefci, 

 Ov y ancor per ufanza amor mi mena ; 



Ben riconofco in vol V uf ate forme, 

 Non, laffb ! in me ; che da si lieta vita 

 Sonfatto albergo d'injinita doglia. 



^uinci vedea V mio bene ; e per quejl 'orme 

 Torno a veder, end* al ciel nuda e gita 

 Lafciando in terra lafua bella fpoglia. Son. 32. Part. 2. 



Thou lonely vale, where in the fleeting years 

 Of tender youth I breath'd my am'rous pain ; 



Thou brook, whofe lilver ftream receiv'd my tears, 

 Thy murmurs joining to my forrowing ftrain ; 

 I come, to vifit all my former haunts again ! 



O green-clad hills, familiar to my light ! 



O well-known paths, where oft I wont to rove, 



MuQng the tender accents of my love ! 

 Long ufe, and fad remembrance now invite, 

 Again to view the fcenes which once could give delight ! 



Yes, ye are Hill the fame ! — though here I meet 

 No more that angel form, which beauty fhed 



On univerfal nature ! Her dear feet 



Oft trod your paths : — here refts in hallow'd earth her head ! 



In one of his Latin eclogues, in which the poet celebrates 

 Laura under the fictitious name of Galatea, three nymphs, 

 Niobe, Fuse a and Fulgida, are introduced in converfation, 

 and one of them afks the others to point out to her the place 



where 



