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328 VISKAMIANI<br />

be driven away by cold, nor will it make me leave this<br />

neighbourhood. As long as I live I shall st<strong>and</strong> here before<br />

thee; it matters not to me if I die in the snow; it is no<br />

shame for me to die for thee. I have tried being without<br />

thee, <strong>and</strong> I wished the living to be a corpse ; <strong>and</strong> if I lived<br />

without thee, what joy would there be for me ? Oh, awful<br />

blast 1 of winter, add fierce frost <strong>and</strong> snow that I may die<br />

the quicker ! For me, death in the snow is much more<br />

pleasant than the baseness of Fate <strong>and</strong> the sight of a lover<br />

become hostile. A body of stone <strong>and</strong> a soul of iron could<br />

"<br />

not bear this state in which I am ! . . .<br />

1<br />

Buki, 286, 355.

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