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QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
The return of the spring, which awakens many to new sentiments of pleasure, now serves only to remind me of past misery.
This sensation is common to the wretched—and too many poets have felt it in all its force.
"Zefiro torno, e'l bel tempo rimena,
"E i fiori, e l'erbe, sua dolce famiglia; &c. &c.
"Ma per me lasso!"—
Petrarch on the Death of Laura.
And these lines of Guarini have always been celebrated.
"O primavera gioventù dell' anno,
"Bella madre di fiori
"D'erbe novelle e di novelli amori;
"Tu torni ben, ma teco
"Non tornano i sereni
"E fortunati di, delle mie gioje;
