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Admiration Quotes
Clear, cool, sweet running waterswhere she, for me the onlywoman, would rest her lovely body (1-3)
Suffering Quotes
[...] listen all of you togetherto these my mournful, my last words (12-13)
Memory and the Past Quotes
[...] kind branch on which it pleased her(I sigh to think of it)to make a column for her lovely side (4-6)
Women and Femininity Quotes
Clear, cool, sweet running waterswhere she, for me the onlywoman, would rest her lovely body;kind branch, on which it pleased her[…]to make a column for her lovely side;and grass and flowers whic...