A fathomless depth of sorrow
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que encobrião um pégo insondavel de tristura e desconforto.
that concealed a fathomless deep of sorrow and distress.
The image reaches its floor — or rather its unreachable floor. 'Um pégo insondavel' — a fathomless pool, an abyss without a soundable bottom — of 'tristura e desconforto,' sorrow and distress. The whole delicate portrait has been leading here: beneath the lovely, drooping surface lies a grief with no measure and no bottom.
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