[創作] Rest assured, never shall I ask from thee

[amadeus1223 (L'amor Celeste)]

Rest assured, never shall I ask from thee,
Never, my beloved, the void merit
Of eternal fidelity, and see:
I myself adhere not to such credit.
Defer thy scold, prithee, and cast an eye
On Human Heart, that is bound in the gyre
Of self-deceit---endless layers of lie,
So waste not upon it thy lovely ire.
Detesting what once loftily above;
Adulating what once trodden below,
We defect from love to hate, hate to love,
And feign to praise the keeping of a vow.
   Thus, do follow thy everchanging will,
   For none in vicissitude shall stand still.

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Amor vincit omnia.

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→ spacedunce5:the twist in the last couplet
→ spacedunce5:could be a bit more dramatic, but
→ spacedunce5:otherwise an outstanding poem!
→ spacedunce5:（我是不是太挑了？XD）
→ amadeus1223:thanks for the comment! I find it
→ amadeus1223:difficult to dramatize the twist,
→ amadeus1223:because I kind of finish all I want
→ amadeus1223:to say in the quatrains...
→ spacedunce5:試試上半敘述反面，下半轉正面？
→ spacedunce5:eg. not..., not; [statement]