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She gathers the white southernwood ,
By the ponds , on the islets .
She employs it ,
In the business of our prince .

She gathers the white southernwood ,
Along the streams in the valleys .
She employs it ,
In the temple of our prince .

With head-dress reverently rising aloft ,
Early , while yet it is night, she is in the prince's temple ;
In her dead-dress, slowly retiring ,
She returns to her own apartments .