Ronsard, if you knew how to spread throughout the world

Poem by Théodore Agrippa D'Aubigné Period 16th century

Ronsard, if you knew how to spread throughout the world
Friendship, sweetness, graces, pride,
Favors, sorrows, ease and cruelty,
And the chaste loves of you and your Cassandre,

I do not wish, in rivalry, for her niece, to undertake
To sing as many as you have sung,
But I wish to compare beauty to beauty,
And my fires to your fires, and my ashes to your ashes.

I know that I cannot speak so learnedly,
I abandon knowledge, I brave argument,
Which from the writing increases or diminishes the grace.

I serve the dawn that is born, you the mutinous evening,
When from the Ocean the obstinate adulterer
Never wants to turn his face to the Orient.

Théodore Agrippa d’Aubigné

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