Guido, I wish that Lapo, you, and I <br />could board a vessel, by transporter beam, <br />that sailed by will alone, wherever seemed <br />desirable to go, beneath all skies. <br />I'd have our vessel proof to chance and gale, <br />and well supplied for pleasant times at sea: <br />we'd grow into a merry company — <br />good food and reveling would be the rule. <br />And Guido, we'd try beaming up the dames! <br />We'd take the ladies Vanna, Bess, and her <br />whom I discreetly call the Mistress Trenta: <br />love, of course, would be the main agenda; <br />that would keep 'em happy I am sure, <br />and well I know that we would be the same. <br />© 1999, 2001 by<br /><br />Dante Alighieri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-guido-cavalcanti/
