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LL through the never-ending night I lie awake and think; In vain I look to try and see The daybreak’s feeble blink Peep through the shutter’s chink.

This priest was the son of the author of. He describes in this poem a sleepless night, when he looks in vain to catch the first glimpse of daybreak through the joints of the sliding screens, that form the walls of a Japanese house. But in the picture, as will be noticed, one of the sliding screens is removed, in order to show the priest within.