To-day love shows his vengeful power, making us proudly to understand that his arrows can fall from his hand like heaven's bolts; for, like the lightning passing wildly by, he wounds the proud and lays low the high.

Bien el amor hoy del poder se venga,
Dando á entender ufano,
Que es rayo cada flecha de su mano,
Pues como rayo, que violento pasa,
Lo altivo hiere y lo eminente abrasa.

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