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Vittoria Colonna

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“She knew the life-long martyrdom,
The weariness, the endless pain
Of waiting for some one to come
Who nevermore would come again.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Vittoria Colonna

Vittoria Colonna.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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