CXI
In Praise of the Union
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All the delights of sight and sound and smell and taste and touch are to be found in their entirety only in this damsel of the shining bangles.
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The cure of all disease lieth in some other thing than that which causeth it: but the pang that this damsel causeth, she alone can heal.
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Is the world of the lotus-eyed God sweeter than the tender arms of her that one loveth?
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When she is at a distance she burneth, but when she is near she is refreshingly cool: ah! whence did she obtain this strange fire?
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Behold the witchery of my love whose tresses are adorned with flowers! whatever thing my heart desireth, that very thing her form seemeth to me to be!
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Of ambrosia are the arms of my artless damsel formed: for their every touch reviveth my dying limbs.
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The embrace of this lovely fair is supremely joyous, even as the family life of the householder who eateth his portion only after distributing charity.
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Joyous to the loving pair is the embrace that alloweth not even the air to come between.
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The pettish frown, the softening of the heart, and the new embrace, these are the sweets that lovers enjoy.
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Even as a man feeleth his ignorance the more keenly the more wise he groweth, even so do I love her the more ardently, the more I enjoy her company.