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The Fiddler

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In a little Hungarian cafe     Men and women are drinking     Yellow wine in tall goblets.     Through the milky haze of the smoke,     The fiddler, under-sized, blond,     Leans to his violin     As to the breast of a woman.     Red hair kindles to fire     On the black of his coat-sleeve,     Where his white thin hand     Trembles and dives,     Like a sliver of moonlight,     When wind has broken the water.

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