Rima LXXX (por Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)
(Painting: Valeriano Bécquer, Portrait of the Artist's Brother, 1862)
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One woman envenomed my soul; Another envenomed my brain. Neither came to seek me; Of neither do I complain.