L’amour chez les vieillards a d'étranges racines,
Et trouve, comme un lierre aux fentes des ruines,
Dans ces cœurs ravagés par le temps et les maux,
Cent brèches où pousser ses tenaces rameaux.

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From strangest roots love in old men doth grow; Like ivy on a ruin it doth show, And in these hearts laid waste by grief and time, By myriad clefts its clinging branches climb. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 86.

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