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 That nurse went to see the grave and returned sobbing, saying:

The lady who had been my stepmother heard of this [and wrote]:

The person who had sent "The Prince Yearning after the Buried" wrote:

Reading these poems my brother, who had followed the funeral that night, composed a poem:

It snowed for many days, and I thought of the nun who lived on Mount Yoshino, to whom I wrote:

On the Sociable month of the next year father was looking forward with happy expectation to the night 28