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Not for your tender eyes that shine, / Nor for your red lips pulsing wine, / I love you, dear: your soul divine, / In sweet captivity, holds mine!
The tender eyes have lost their glow, / The flagons of the lips run low, / The autumn trembles in the air --
A woman passes solitaire!