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"english": "O luxuriant, most sweet-smelling rose, who appear around the Summer: women, both maidens and married ones, desire you; save me from these torments, if such is your will",
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"text": "«Rosa fresca aulentis[s]ima ch’apari inver’ la state, / le donne ti disiano, pulzell’ e maritate: / tràgemi d’este focora, se t’este a bolontate",
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"text": "Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura / esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte / che nel pensier rinova la paura!",
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"english": "And this thought impresses itself on my mind so, that I seem to see, looking in it [the Sun]—like an eagle does, focused and fixed—my Flame",
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"text": "Et sì nel cor s’imprompta esto pensero, / Che mi pare veder, guardando in esso, / Sì come aquila face, intento et fiso, / La fiamma mia",
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"text": "Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura / esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte / che nel pensier rinova la paura!",
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"text": "Et sì nel cor s’imprompta esto pensero, / Che mi pare veder, guardando in esso, / Sì come aquila face, intento et fiso, / La fiamma mia",
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"text": "Questi de’ salvatori erano i doni; / Questo dicean fondarne a civil vita; / Qual se Italia, al chiamar d’esti Anfioni, / Fosse dei boschi e de le tane uscita.",
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