“Therefore hear this now, you who are given to pleasures,
Who dwell securely,
Who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me;
I shall not sit as a widow,
Nor shall I know the loss of children’;

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“Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure,
    lounging in your security(A)
and saying to yourself,
    ‘I am, and there is none besides me.(B)
I will never be a widow(C)
    or suffer the loss of children.’

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“Now, then, hear this, you (A)luxuriant one,
Who (B)lives securely,
Who says in her heart,
(C)I am, and there is no one besides me.
I will (D)not sit as a widow,
Nor know the loss of children.’

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