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Jan Andrzej Morsztyn
Jan Andrzej Morsztyn - To a Young Lady
TO A YOUNG LADY
Hard is the iron smelted with great pains,
Hard is the diamond, with no hammer stains,
Hard is the oak with old age petrified,
Hard are the rocks, not heeding the sea tide;
You are harder, lady, who my tears mock,
Than the iron, diamond, hard oak, and rock.
Translated by Michael J. Mikoś