But sooner or later you would regret having consecrated your love to me, for you do not know my soul. Now you are admiring my good looks which have bowled over more than one woman. I said as soon as I saw her: “I perceive that goodness and justice have dwelt in your heart: we could not live together. I said: “Come closer that I may discern your features clearly, for at this distance the starlight is not strong enough to illumine them.” Then, with modest demeanour, eyes lowered, she crossed the greensward and reached my side. A beautiful woman whom I could scarcely discern also exerted her bewitching sway upon me and looked at me with compassion. Night was beginning to spread the blackness of her veil over nature. Let us give thanks for this happy day.” But I replied: “Go! I did not summon you. He approached me and held out his hand: “I have come to you, you who seek me. The sun in all his magnificence rose on the horizon, and behold, there also appeared before my eyes a young man whose presence made flowers grow as he passed. There had to be someone who would approve of my character there had to be someone with the same ideas as myself. I scanned all the crannies of the earth: my perseverance was useless. “I sought a soul that might resemble mine, and I could not find it.
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