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Hesperus, comrades, has stolen one girl away from us,[Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen come O Hymenaeus!]
For at your approach a guard always keeps watch. Thieves lie in wait by night, often on your return with your name changed,
Hesperus, you catch the same men. Yet it pleases the unwedded girls to criticize you with false complaints. But what if they criticize the one whom with silent mind they long for? Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen come O Hymenaeus!
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As grows the hidden flower in a walled garden, unknown to cattle, uprooted by no plow, which the breezes caress, the sun strengthens, and the rain gives growth: many boys and many girls have longed for it: this same flower when plucked by a delicate fingernail sheds its blossoms: no boys and no girls long for it:
so the virgin, while she stays untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower from her body profaned, she does not remain a delight for the boys, she beauteous, nor is she dear to the girls. Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen come O Hymenaeus!
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As the widowed vine which grows in naked field never uplifts itself, never ripens a mellow grape, but bending prone beneath the weight of its tender body now and again its highmost shoot touches with its root; this no farmer, no oxen will cultivate: but if this same chance to be joined with marital elm,
many farmers, many oxen will cultivate it: so the virgin, while she stays untouched, so long does she age, uncultivated; but when she obtains fitting union at the right time, dearer is she to her husband and less of a trouble to her father. Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen come O Hymenaeus!
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