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    I have conceived your orphanhood equal to all, - Yes, - when in your fertility radiating button-eyes, in the wombs of your fetuses, your miscarried fetuses, the Bliss! And gave birth to her grief in pearl-gemmed sorrow! 
    Yes! - Then I watched with thee: And now 
     I knew, because thou told'st me, thou shouldst not have come! - Sometimes it was needless to cry to my lips the plea of consolation, "Be still, my little beetle. Thy bold words have long deceived me: the foolish fool that can be deceived! 
     
    You thought it was a dream, you thought it was a dream, you thought it would comfort me with a Delilah smile - but you were deceived by the heart-rending truth of my tears, to justify your obsessive lies, because you said yourself: "The honest, chewed Word is unbearably reasonable in time!" - In the rich pool of my tears, love has hibernated for you! 
     
    Do you remember when you closed your fragile conscience with lily pots before me-I blamed thee not, I stooped and embraced thy proud and supple knee of your thighs! - Thou didst feel that thou hadst become an indefeasible part of me, and that I, too, might be a 
    whom thou hast honoured with thy happiness: oh! How we have wasted our priceless each other with heaps of romantic compliments, deceived our selfish hearts with worthless pretences, and at last, with icy claws, the hyena-wind hunted me like in the camp of the misunderstood envious, the foaming-mouthed hate!
     

     

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