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 He smiled over the poem. As he was reading sutras those days he sent the following poem:

Her answer:

Once it snowed heavily and he sent her a poem affixed to a branch covered with snow:

This was unexpected and she wrote back:

The next morning early he sent a poem:

Her answer:

What the Prince had been thinking of he wrote in heart-dwindling words, saying, "I think I cannot live out my life in this world," so she wrote back:

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