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| NUMBER: | 44088 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Petrarch (1304–1374), Italian poet (FRANCESCO PETRARCA). Sonnets to Laura in Death (l. 36–40).
OxBL—V. Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892–1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press. |
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