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64 En la vida que siempre tuya fue Divine Laura, My Life Was Always Yours 65 [3.129.13.201] Project MUSE (2024-04-16 11:46 GMT) 66 En la vida que siempre tuya fue, Laura divina, y siempre 10 sera, la Parca fiera, que en seguirme da, quiso asentar por triunfo el mortal pie. Yo de su atrevimiento me admire: que si debajo de su imperio esta, tener poder no puede en ella ya, pues del suyo contigo me libre. Para cortar el hila que no hilo, la tijeramortal abierta vi. iAy, Parca fiera!, dije entonces yo; mira que sola Laura manda aqui. Ella, corrida, al punta se aparto, y dejome morir solo por ti. Divine Laura, my life was always yours and always will be yours though Death stalked me and longed to put her foot on me and crow. I applaud her audacity: she's lost an empire; now her power's yours. Through you, I'm free. I saw her fatal scissors ready to snip my thread. "Ay, Death!" I said. "Look! Laura rules here." Death saw she'd lost me and fledfrom now on, I die only for you. 67 ...

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