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I saw in a dream a gold princesswith cheek as wan as willow.We lay beneath the linden-treewith blossom for our pillow.

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Instead of a throne, my beautiful,

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and crown with diamonds strewn,

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your love shall king me with the cool

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regalia of the moon.”

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But did you not discover,”

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she sighed beneath her breath,

“ that, when I am your lover,

I am deceiving death ? ”

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