not return. Then Canens went searching for me, and for six days and six nights she sought me in the woods and on the hills and in the valleys. I did not show myself to her, although I heard her sweet voice calling me through the woods—'Picus, Picus, where art thou?' Then I heard her sing as a swan sings, and when I flew to her, I found her melting away in tears.

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