Like a wilting lily
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A fronte lhe pendia para um lado como assucena esmorecida,
Her brow drooped to one side like a wilting lily,
The first of two exquisite similes. Her head tips like an 'assucena esmorecida' — a lily that has begun to droop and fail. The white lily is the era's emblem of chaste beauty, and 'esmorecida,' fainting, weakening, tells us the beauty is being sapped by grief even as it is displayed. Loveliness and sorrow are painted as one image.
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