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23.

O lovely [one], dear, O lovely [one], dear, O lovely [one], dear, do not open thy heart; I am an affianced soldier, I shall not endure it. O lovely [one], dear, O lovely [one], dear, I have a flower, it is variegated, It is not [merely] variegated, it is scarlet gauze; In a distant place I have a beloved— A pomegranate seed, a ruby. O lovely [one], dear, O lovely [one], dear, etc. Tonight I went outside, The sodden snow had dampened; It was dripping upon the marble stone— It is my beloved’s eye [that] has wept. The moon has cast a halo, It has cast thee beneath the cloud; My blinded fortune, too, Has cast me all alone.