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She gathers the white southernwood, | |
By the ponds, on the islets. | |
She employs it, | |
In the business of our prince. | |
She gathers the white southernwood, | |
Along the streams in the valleys. | |
She employs it, | |
In the temple of our prince. | |
With head-dress reverently rising aloft, | |
Early, while yet it is night, she is in the prince's temple; | |
In her dead-dress, slowly retiring, | |
She returns to her own apartments. |
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