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Like a single eulalia upon the mountain Thy weeping shall indeed rise As the mist of the morning shower, Thine Augustness, my spouse young like young herbs!”

Then the Empress taking a great liquor cup, and drawing anear and offering it to her husband deity, sang as follows:

The fact that the ancient Japanese patiently bore any amount of pain for conquering love is illustrated in how His Augustness the Deity-of-Eight-Thousand Spears found his Empress, that is Her Augustness the Forward-Princess, and married her; he was put in a snake-house by her angry father when he discovered their love, and again in a house filled with centipedes when he