Vita Nuova: 'You that thus wear a modest countenance'

You that thus wear a modest countenance
With lids weigh’d down by the heart’s heaviness,
Whence come you, that among you every face
Appears the same, for its pale troubled glance?
Have you beheld my lady’s face, perchance,
Bow’d with the grief that Love makes full of grace?
Say now, “This thing is thus;” as my heart says,
Marking your grave and sorrowful advance.
And if indeed you come from where she sighs
And mourns, may it please you (for his heart’s relief)
To tell how it fares with her unto him
Who knows that you have wept, seeing your eyes,
And is so grieved with looking on your grief
That his heart trembles and his sight grows dim.