“Kindles in noble heart the fire of love, As hidden virtue in the precious stone; This virtue comes not from the stars above, Till round it the ennobling sun has shone; But when his powerful blaze Has drawn forth what was vile, the stars impart Strange virtue in their rays; And thus when nature doth create the heart Noble, and pure, and high, Like virtue from the star, love comes from woman’s eye.”

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Paradiso XIV 40:⁠—