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The poor fellow has been there for two months without air, light, or occupation, and his only society is his own revengeful thoughts and angry love-complaints." Marie gave one hollow moan, covering her corpse-like face with her hands. "In this abode of torture, in this dwelling of the damned, he must remain ten long years, if death does not release him?" "What did you say?" she groaned.
Enough has been said, perhaps, to show what the popular poetry of Sicily could lend to the genius of Theocritus. From her shepherds he borrowed much, their bucolic melody; their love-complaints; their rural superstitions; their system of answering couplets, in which each singer refines on the utterance of his rival.
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