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O Guarani 21.52 · 21.52

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Álvaro fitou no índio um olhar admirado. Onde é que este selvagem sem cultura aprendera a poesia simples, mas graciosa; onde bebera a delicadeza de sensibilidade que dificilmente se encontra num coração gasto pelo atrito da sociedade?

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Álvaro fixed an admiring look on the Indian. Where had this uncultured savage learned poetry so simple yet graceful; where had he drunk in the delicacy of feeling scarcely found in a heart worn by the friction of society?

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