"Who sees you, Lady, clear and manifest

The beautiful being of your beautiful eyes,

If he does not lose sight only in seeing them,

No longer pays what he owes to your gesture.

This seemed to me an honest price;

But I, for the advantage of deserving them

I gave more life and soul to love them,

Whereof I am no more left.

So life and soul and hope,

And all that I have, all is yours,

And the profit of it I only take.

For it is such bliss

To give you what I have and what I can,

That the more I pay you, the more I owe you."

September 17, 2020

View through the side portal of the ruined Świny Castle in Western Poland. Medieval, gothic and Renaissence architecture.

Photographer and original blogger @yoda-ii