Variant translations: — So late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! So late I loved you! — The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett (2007), by Lee Oser, p. 29 — Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you. — Introduction to a Philosophy of Religion (1970) by Alice Von Hildebrandhttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo