[LA FORTUNA. DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION.

[LA FORTUNA. DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION. (Mary) Matilda Betham Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T143264 Betham, Mary Matilda, 1776-1852. Elegies and Other Small Poems, by Matilda Betham. Ipswich Printed by W. Burrell, and sold by Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Jermyn and Forster, Ipswich 1797 p. 97.

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[ LA FORTUNA . DELLO STESSO . ] TRANSLATION . To him whom kindly I behold , The midnight sky is clear , And 'mid the wintry frost and cold , The blushing flowers appear . But to the wretch who meets my eye , When kindled by disdain , The very grove will leaves deny , And waveless be the main .