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A thousand women's eyes / Riveted to the unrealisable / Scatter the wash-stand of the card-teller / Defiled marble of Carrara / On which she spreads / Color-picture maps of destiny / In the corner / Of an inconducive bed-room / "Impassioned / Doubly impassioned / Sad / You see these three cards / But here is the double Victory / And there is an elderly lady / Ill / in whom you are concerned / This / is the Devil / And these two skeletons / Are mortifications / You / are going to make a journey / At evening / about love / Here is the Man of the Heart / Turning his shoulders to a lady / Covered with tears about matrimony / At the door of your house / There is a letter about an affair / And a bed / and a table / And this ace of spades turned upside-down / ‘With respect'
Means / that some man / Has / well you know / Intentions / little honorable / Here you are / covered with tears / For a deception / The Man of the Heart / Is in thoughtfulness for a letter / He will make a journey at evening / And really / lady / I should say / It will not be long before you see him / For there he is at the door of the house / And look / Here are you / And here is he / In life and thought / At the door of the house"