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 "Handsome, youthful, fixed of face,

He doth supplicate

"Set my Lady Haru free

From her evil state!

Hear the prayer of Itô, Lord of Grace!"

"'Tak'st,' I asked him, 'no repose?'

'Holy Sir!' he said,

'Prayer is all that I may offer.

Might I guard her bed

All Hell's fiends these eyes should never close!'

"Being but your foot-soldier

Itô dares not speak!"

Quoth the Shogun, "Let him be

Taicho—Captain! Seek

Only how to save our daughter here!"

Therefore, with those maids fourscore,

And those statesmen five,

Soldier Itô kept the watch.

Hardly half-alive

Lay the gentle Lady, moaning sore.