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Sonnet 72, speaks even more openly about desire, which "clings" to his "pure love," and which he cannot shake off, to the extent that to him these two become inseparable. While he allows that he must part with desire and oppose it with "virtue's gold," the sonnet concludes with the same doubts as before: although he admits to the dichotomy of desire and virtue, and many times even seems to admit to the wise resolution to relinquish desire, Sidney always turns back to desire as an inseparable part of love:

But thou, Desire, because thou wouldst have all, Now banish'd art, but yet alas how shall? "(Sidney)

The last lines of the sonnet clearly question whether desire can be banished from love, or whether love is possible without it. It becomes then obvious that the conflict between virtue and desire is, on the one hand, a tribute to the conventionalism of Sidney's age and a token of the self frustrated by convention, but most of all, the conflict, in which love, which is called merely desire at times, always wins, at least within the rhetorical scheme: the poems are all persuasive arguments in favor of desire.

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