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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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deny the praise that a signed portrait of the Poet truth, which she calls passion

This, you see, deception colorful art
that displaying all the charms,
with false syllogisms
color sense is deceptively;

it, in which flattery has tried to excuse the years
horrors,
and overcoming the rigors of time,
triumph over age and oblivion,

is a vain artifice of care is
delicate flower in the wind,
is a useless guard against fate;

wrong is a foolish effort, an effort
is outdated and, all things considered,
's corpse is dust, a shadow is nothing .

She tries to refute the Praise
inscribed on her portrait by Truth, Which she calls passion

This, That You see, this colored treachery,
which, by displaying all the charms of art,
with those false syllogisms of its hues
deceptively subverts the sense of sight;

this, in which false praise has vainly sought
to shun the horrors of the passing years,
and conquering of time the cruelty,
to overcome age and oblivion's might,

is a vain artifice cautiously wrought,
is a fragile bloom caught by the wind,
is, to ward off fate, pure uselessness;

is a foolish effort that's gone wrong,
is a weakened zeal, and, rightly seen,
is corpse, is dust, is gloom, is nothingness.