I also could speak as you do,
    if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
    and (A)shake my head at you.
I could strengthen you with my mouth,
    and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
    and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

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