“Black was this queen as jet, yet on her eyes
Sweet loveliness in black attired lies.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Bruna e si, ma il bruno il bel non toglie.
Canto XII, stanza 21 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“I have named you queen.
There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you, lovelier.
But you are the queen.”
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There are taller than you, taller.
There are purer than you, purer.
There are lovelier than you…" by Pablo Neruda?
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