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And what are you that, wanting you / I should be kept awake / As many nights as there are days / With weeping for your sake?
And what are you that, missing you, / As many days as crawl / I should be listening to the wind / And looking at the wall?
I know a man that's a braver man / And twenty men as kind, / And what are you, that you should be / The one man in my mind?
Yet women's ways are witless ways, / As any sage will tell, -- / And what am I, that I should love / So wisely and so well?