"When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair."

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Source : 'Sonnets pour Hèléne' (1578) bk. 2, no. 42

Pierre de Ronsard

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