I
had finished uttering the name of Mary,
I fell; and there my flesh alone remained.
I’ll speak the truth—do you, among the living,
retell it: I was taken by God’s angel,
but he from Hell cried: ‘You from Heaven—why
do you deny me him? For just one tear
you carry off his deathless part; but I
shall treat his other part in other wise.’
Dante's Divine Comedy- Purgatorio Canto V, 100-108
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