CXIII.

Your houris also have a natural pleasure

In lopping off your lately married men,

Before the bridal hours have danced their measure

And the sad, second moon grows dim again,

Or dull Repentance hath had dreary leisure

To wish him back a bachelor now and then:

And thus your Houri (it may be) disputes

Of these brief blossoms the immediate fruits.

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