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Superstition #1080

Repeat, looking at the new moon the first time you see it,—

New moon, true moon, tell unto, me
Who my true love is to be;
The color of his hair, the clothes he is to wear,
And when he’ll be married to me.

Mansfield, O.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1080.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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