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And I fell in love anew: this time

my life’s great love – Lina of the red shawl.

She who grows up with us came from her womb,

the little blue-eyed girl.

Trieste is the city, Lina the woman,

for whom I wrote the book of my most bold

sincerity; and right up to this time

my soul never parted from her soul.

Every other human love I got to know;

but for Lina I would take another

life again, would want to start afresh.

I loved her for the peaks of her sorrow;

for she was everything in the world, and never

devious, and loved everything but herself.