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11The moon was saddened. Dreaming of weeping seraphs,The moon grew sad. Dreaming of weeping seraphs,
22Bow in hand, amid the stillness of gossamer flowers,amid the stillness of gossamer flowers, bow in hand,
33The faint tones they drew from their viols,playing faint viols,
44White sobs gliding over the blossom’s azure hearttheir white sobs slipping over the blue of the corollae –
55– It was the blessed day of your first kiss.it was the blessed day of your first kiss.
66My reverie, taking pleasure in my pain,Loving to torture me, my reverie
77Knowingly intoxicated me with the fragrance of sadnessknowingly intoxicated me with the fragrance of sadness
88That itself, with neither sorrow nor bitterness,that without regret or heartbreak
99Abandons the harvesting of a Dream to the heart that has gleaned it.itself lets the plucking of a Dream belong to the heart that plucked it.
1010I was wandering, then, my eye fixed on the ancient cobblesI was wandering, then, my eye fixed on the old cobbles
1111When, with the sun in your hair, and in the evening light of the street,when, with the sun on your hair, and in the evening light of the street,
1212You appeared to me, laughing,you appeared to me , laughing,
1313And I thought I had seen the fairy, its head garlanded with light,and I thought I had seen the fairy, whose head was garlanded with light ,
1414Who all that time ago passed over the enchanted array of nameless desires and unheard-of delights.that long ago passed over the enchanted dreams of my indulged childhood,
15ever letting white bouquets of perfumed stars
16fall like snow from his half-closed hands.

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