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There are women who fall for a lover who’s inclined toward another—like people who put their trust in a river flowing backward—and if they think they will get going with him/it, my friend, their efforts will be for naught, and they’ll be reduced to laughing stocks.

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Dearer than all dear ones and always abiding in the heart, her soul in separation from you suffers in her throat, in the same way that during love-making you fling your arms round her neck.*

When the lover is invisible, that anguish is nothing compared with when he can be seen but is unobtainable; the sun-stone remains cool during the night, and only flares up during the day.*

Not to be displayed even to a friend, and causing happiness merely by being there, a lover, like wealth in a rulerless country, can be enjoyed only in secret and with deceit.*

[He:] “You heard about my offenses—look me in the eyes and tell me the truth!” [She:] “Would he not be called a ‘fraudster’ who has a face that robs one of one’s indig-nation?”*

Engaging again and again as they pursue each other down-stream, chasing from bank to bank, the young couple have not completed their Magha ritual bath, even though the sun has risen.*