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58 after meals. On the lips of youth alone you reap the sweetest harvests:

The young maiden will only give her love-kiss to her sweetheart, the stalwart swain; an old suitor is spurned with scorn. The lovely Mara, white and red, walked by the spring and tended her sheep:

But straightway comes the answer from fair Mara, white and red: