Purgatorio 31.52–54

Beatrice to Dante beside the river Lethe

e se ’l sommo piacer sì ti fallio

per la mia morte, qual cosa mortale

dovea poi trarre te nel suo disio?

and if the highest pleasure so failed you

through my death, what mortal thing

should then have drawn you into its desire?

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