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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got read more
Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.
 It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief 
could be assuaged by baldness.
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 It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief 
could be assuaged by baldness.
 [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito 
maeror levaretur.] 
 And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
 Has led and turned me by a single hair.  
 And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
 Has led and turned me by a single hair. 
 And though it be a two-foot trout,
 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.  
 And though it be a two-foot trout,
 'Tis with a single hair pulled out. 
 And yonder sits a maiden,
 The fairest of the fair,
  With gold in her garment glittering,
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 And yonder sits a maiden,
 The fairest of the fair,
  With gold in her garment glittering,
   And she combs her golden hair. 
 The little wind that hardly shook
 The silver of the sleeping brook
  Blew the gold hair about read more 
 The little wind that hardly shook
 The silver of the sleeping brook
  Blew the gold hair about her eyes,--
   A mystery of mysteries.
    So he must often pause, and stoop,
     An all the wanton ringlets loop
      Behind her dainty ear--emprise
       Of slow event and many sighs. 
 Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
 Whose every hair a soul doth bind.  
 Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,
 Whose every hair a soul doth bind. 
 For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
 [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
  Simplex read more 
 For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness?
 [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam
  Simplex munditiis?] 
 But she is vanish'd to her shady home
 Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
  Weeps in a read more 
 But she is vanish'd to her shady home
 Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
  Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.