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Not the soul that's whitest / Wakens love the sweetest: / When the heart is lightest / Oft the charm is fleetest.
While the snow-frail maiden, / Waits the time of learning, / To the passion laden / Turn with eager yearning.
While the heart is burning / Heaven with earth is banded: / To the stars returning / Go not empty-handed.
Ah, the snow-frail maiden!
Somehow truth has missed her, / Left the heart unladen / For its burdened sister.