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Khap-Salung

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Seeing that I adore you,     Scarf of golden flowers,     Why do you stay unmarried?     As the liana at a tree's foot     That quivers to wind it round,     So do I wait for you. I pray you     Do not detest me....     I have come to say farewell.     Farewell, scarf;     Garden Royal     Where none may enter,     Gaudy money     I may not spend.     Song of the Love Nights of Laos.

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