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HE UNDERSTANDS THE GREAT CRUELTY OF DEATH, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires
Last Line: Pike in his hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Laura In Death: 47
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my
heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
Then my sweet enemy was making a start, little by little, to give over her great wariness, the way
she was wringing a sweet thing out of my sharp sorrow. The time was coming when Love and
Decency can keep company, and Lovers may sit together and say out all things in their hearts.
But Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a
pike in his hand.





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