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1. A lone young shepherd lived
in pain
withdrawn from pleasure and contentment,
his thoughts fixed on a
shepherd-girl
his heart an open wound with love.2. He weeps, but not from the wound of love,
there is no pain in such affliction,
even though the heart is pierced;
he weeps in knowing he's been forgotten.3. That one thought: his shining one
has forgotten him, is such great pain
that he bows to brutal handling in a foreign land,
his heart an open wound with love.4. The shepherd says: I pity the one
who draws herself back from my love,
and does not seek the joy of my presence,
though my heart is an open wound with love for her.5. After a long time he climbed a tree,
and spread his shining arms,
and hung by them, and died,
his heart an open wound with love.