Let's Be Neighbour!

Sonnet of Fidelity

Vinicius de Morais

Above all, to my love I'll be attentive

First and always, with care and so much

That even when facing the greatest enchantment

By love be more enchanted my thoughts.

I want to live it through in each vain moment

And in its honor I'll spread my song

And laugh my laughter and cry my tears

When you are sad or when you are content.

And thus, when later comes looking for me

Who knows, the death, anxiety of the living,

Who knows, the loneliness, end of all lovers

I'll be able to say to myself of the love (I had):

Be not immortal, since it is flame

But be infinite while it lasts.

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed--and gazed--but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.