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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

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Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

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