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NUMBER:44094
QUOTATION:Great is my envy of death whose curt hard sword
Carried her whom I called my life away;
Me he disdains, and mocks me from her eyes!
ATTRIBUTION:Petrarch (1304–1374), Italian poet (FRANCESCO PETRARCA). Sonnets to Laura in Death (l. 36–40).

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