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A smile because the nights are short! / And every morning brings such pleasure / Of sweet love-making, harmless sport: / Love that makes and finds its treasure; / Love, treasure without measure.
A sigh because the days are long! / Long, long these days that pass in sighing, / A burden saddens every song: / While time lags which should be flying, / We live who would be dying.