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Night in Seville, and the twinkle / Of stars in the far azure set, / The mandolin's torturing tinkle, / The click of the castanet! / Music and wine and low laughter, / Love and a torment of tune-- / Hate and a poignard thereafter, / Under the yellow moon.
Here in the night I await her, / Under the slumberous moon; / Yearns my fierce spirit to mate her-- / All my sick senses aswoon / Beneath the wild sway of her dancing / Passion and pride are at war;-- / Thrall to her amorous glancing, / Grandee and toreador.