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"ref": "1964, Francisco Balagtas, Mabini's Version of \"Florante at Laura\", page 33",
"text": "When brooding o'er the past, I dwell / On how in wicked hands you fell, / Your end I seem to picture well, / A doom too horrorous to tell!",
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