110. ‘Persequendomi Amor al luogo usato,’

Love pursuing me to my old haunts,

I armed myself with my former thoughts.

hemmed in like a man in a battle,

who protects himself, and shuts the passes,

I turned and saw a shadow sunlight made

at my side, and recognised, on earth,

her who, if my judgement does not err,

is more worthy of an immortal state.

I said in my heart: ‘Why be afraid?

But the thought was hardly formed inside

when the light appeared, by which I am destroyed.

Like thunder and lightning both together,

so I saw her lovely shining eyes

joined as one with her sweet greeting.