CXXIV
The Wasting Away of Her Lovely Form
She
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My eyes think on him who left me saying that it was but to increase my happiness that he went, and are ashamed to show their face before flowers.66
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My lacklustre eyes that are raining down tears look as if they would betray to others the unkindness of my beloved.
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The arms that swelled with joy on the nuptial day now look as if they would proclaim his parting to all the world.
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The arms that lost their wonted comeliness at the parting of the beloved, are now grown so thin that their very bracelets slip off from them of themselves.
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The arms which have lost their wonted comeliness together with the bracelets that they were wearing, proclaim loudly to the world the cruelty of that cruel one.
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I chide my arms for growing lean and allowing the bracelets to fall off, as people now reproach him with cruelty.
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Wouldst thou obtain glory, O my Heart? Then run to the cruel one and tell him of the bruit that hath arisen here from the wasting away of my arm.
He
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As we were embracing each other one day, I but relaxed my arms a little, and the forehead of that artless one grew pale at once!
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But a single breath of wind cut its way between us during our embrace, and the blood fled at once from her large eyes that are full even as the rain-cloud.
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Did the eyes grow pale only? They wept also at seeing the pallor of the fair forehead above.