And bend before her form the pagan knee,
Fairer than Venus, daughter of the sea.
Sonnet III.
He proves the Existence of a Soul from his Love for Delia.
Some have denied a soul! THEY NEVER LOVED.
Far from my Delia now by fate removed,
At home, abroad, I view her everywhere;
Her ONLY in the FLOOD OF NOON I see,
My Goddess-Maid, my OMNIPRESENT FAIR,