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Rh Again, fair Mara, white and red, walked by the spring and tended her sheep:

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

In another Servian ballad we find the same glorification of the stalwart young lover, the same contempt for, and detestation of, old men who go a-wooing.

High upon a mountain's slope once stood a maiden,

Mirroring her lovely image in the stream,