this chill knows me as the root knows the wet or the petal... well, i forget the line
from a poem of John, which I had to follow
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oh, these nights in my teen time, when I had been this chill, coming in and out from a crack in the window
passing unnoticed the threatening hand of the vile knight Hetz fon Berlihingen and his downward face as if he's hanging all night long on the window glass