PART III LOVE
CHAPTER 111
IN PRAISE OF THE UNION
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1101. All the delights of sight and sound and smell and taste and touch are to be found in their entirety only in this damsel of the shining bangles.
1102. The cure of all disease lieth in some other thing than that which causeth it: but the pang that this damsel causeth, she alone can heal.
1103. Is the world of the lotus-eyed God sweeter than the tender arms of her that one loveth ?
1104. When she is at a distance she burneth, but when she is near she is refreshingly cool : ah! whence did she obtain this strange fire ?
1105. Behold the witchery of my love whose tresses are adorned with flowers ! whatever thing my heart desireth, that very thing her form seemeth to me to be!
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