BOTTICELLI TO SIMONETTA

I would give you all my heart, and I have given

All my heart to you to have and keep

With your heart, where my heart has found its heaven

In a light immortal, and a peace like sleep.

Here is my heart, for you to have and treasure,

Your woman's heart will treasure it,

For a love that only love may find a measure,

And only love like yours can measure it.

In absence and in separation praying