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85 And he replied: 'It is my Nella
86 whose flooding tears so quickly brought me
87 to drink sweet wormwood in the torments.
88 'With her devoted prayers and with her sighs,
89 she plucked me from the slope where one must wait
90 and freed me from the other circles.
91 'So much more precious and beloved of God
92 is my dear widow, whom I greatly loved,
93 the more she is alone in her good works.
94 'For the Barbagia of Sardegna
95 shelters many more modest women
96 than does that Barbagia where I left her.

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