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Rh LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP.

A' szerelem, Lidikém! ollyan, mint regel az árnyék.

, my sweet Lidi! resembles the fugitive shadows of morning;

Shorter and shorter they grow, and at length disappear.

Friendship—our friendship—is like the beautiful shadows of evening,

Spreading and growing till life and its light pass away. Rh