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wander along so young, smile so young, and
speak so youthfully to each other, not be a
married couple before the cuckoo sings again
next year? See – that is what I should like to
know! and the smile played around the
thinker’s mouth, but she did not speak her
thoughts. The straws were separated –
consequently the bachelor and the old maid also.
“It may, however, happen nevertheless,” she
certainly thought: it was apparent in the smile;
it was obvious in the manner in which she threw
the straws away.
“There is nothing I would know – nothing
that I am curious to know!” said the fourth;
but yet she bound the straws together; for
within her also there was a wish alive; but
bird has sung about it; no one guesses it.
Rock thyself securely in the heart’s lotus
flower, thou shining humming-bird, thy name
shall not be pronounced: and besides the straws
said as before – “without hope!”
“Now you! now you!” cried the young
girls to a stranger, far from the neighbouring
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