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The hammer of Istar, the anvil of armies Failed in the forge ofFordus's desert, Failed on the plains when the sun passed over, And the smoke rose up from a smithy of blood While lost in the city the women lament,
The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994
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For as those who shudder in ague-fits or burn in fevers feel more trouble and distress than those who externally suffer the same from cold or heat, so the grief is lighter which comes externally from chance, but that lament,
Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch
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Most people in their 70s and older who are struggling with many uncomfortable symptoms and low energy lament,
How and When to Be Your Own Doctor Isabel Moser
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She pours to her spirit's content, a nightingale's woeful lament,
The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Like the lament that a house lifts up for its master, lifts she up a lament,
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` My enchanter and priest! 'at his vanishing away she lifts up a lament,
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Like the lament that a house lifts up for its master, lifts she up a lament,
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But, while he learns these truths which we lament,
Child 1919
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'My enchanter and priest!' at his vanishing away she lifts up a lament,
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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Like the lament that a house lifts up for its master, lifts she up a lament,
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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