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The Curse at Farewell
THE CURSE AT FAREWELL
What faults our hospitality has shown You will forget.
KACH With gracious smile and tone
All fr'endly, lady, bid your slave farewell.?
DEBJANI With smile? Alas, this is not where they dwell, Your citizens of heaven! As in the flower A worm, friend, here a thirst from hour to hour Wakes in the heart; desire round the desired Hovers and turns, as the black bee untired, Rejected oft, to the shut lotus flies. When happiness is fled, here memory sighs,
Sitting within an empty room alone.
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