Page:The New Life (Rossetti 1899) Siddal ed.djvu/146

140

Therefore I went out from thee; feeling how

The tears were straightway loosened at my heart

Beneath thine eyes' compassionate control.

And afterwards I said within my soul:

"Lo! with this lady dwells the counterpart

Of the same Love who holds me weeping now."

It happened after this, that whensoever I was seen of this lady, she became pale and of a piteous countenance, as though it had been with love; whereby she remembered me many times of my own most noble lady, who was wont to be of a like paleness. And I know that often, when I could not weep nor in any way give ease unto mine anguish, I went to look upon this lady, who seemed to bring the tears into my eyes by the mere sight of her. Of the which thing I bethought me to speak unto her in rhyme, and then made this sonnet: which