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Rh  When you knew not, his clear hand had given many a sweet love-token, He had gathered all my heartstrings and had bound them round his life; Yet you tell me he defiles me; nay, my father, you have spoken In your anger, and not knowing I was Chunder All's wife."

OVE is a plant with double root,
 * And of strange, elastic power:

Men's minds are divided in naming the fruit,
 * But a kiss is only the flower.