Grim Hunger and his brother Death shall wait.

Levia Gravia.

XXIII F. PETRARCA

If far from turbid thoughts and gloomy mood

Some smiling day should see my wish fulfilled

Where breathe the vales with gentle brooks enrilled

The soft air of my Tuscan neighbourhood,

There, where is heard no more the garrulous brood

Of thoughtless minds, in deep oblivion stilled,

Would I to thee my heart's pure altar build