Lovers ... when you raise yourselves and press
your mouths together—drink upon drink:
strange how each of you drinks your way past the other.

Liebende … [w]enn ihr einer dem andern
euch an den Mund hebt und ansetzt –: Getränk an Getränk:
o wie entgeht dann der Trinkende seltsam der Handlung.

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