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270  (recostumed as her lover): My wide white skirts hitched up My wide white skirts hitched up
 * My tall black hat pulled down
 * And my sleeves thrown over my head
 * Hidden from the eyes of men on the road
 * In the moonlight
 * In the darkness coming, coming
 * When the night rains fell
 * When the night winds blew the leaves like rain
 * When the snow lay deep

And the melting drops fell
 * One by one from the rafters

I came and went, came and went
 * One night, two nights, three,
 * Ten (and this was the Harvest Night)
 * And did not see her.
 * Faithful as a cock that marks each dawn
 * I came and carved my mark upon the pillar.
 * I was to come a hundred nights,
 * I lacked but one….

Oh, dizziness … pain…. He was grieved at the pain in his breast
 * When the last night came and he died
 * Shii no Shosho, the Captain.

It was his unsatisfied love possessed me so
 * His anger that turned my wits.
 * In the face of this I will pray
 * For life in the worlds to come
 * The sands of goodness I will pile
 * Into a towering hill.
 * Before the golden, gentle Buddha I will lay
 * Poems as my flowers
 * Entering in the Way
 * Entering in the Way.