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Rh The distant chamber I enter alone,

An Armenian embraces my faithless maid.

Darkness around me; flashed the dagger;

To interrupt his kiss the wretch had no time.

And long I trampled the headless corpse,—

And silent and pale at the maid I stared.

I remember her prayers, her flowing blood,

But perished the girl, and with her my love.

The shawl I took from the head now dead

And wiped in silence the bleeding steel.

When came the darkness of eve, my serf

Threw their bodies into the Danube's billows—

Since then I kiss no charming eyes,

Since then I know no cheerful days.

I gaze demented on the black shawl,

And my cold soul is torn by grief.