Not of Nirvana's state!

Love that beyond itself can see

No beauty wise or great.

O-Shichi for a moon—a whole

Moon happy there beheld

The young boy-priest whose yearning e'er into his eyes upwelled.

VIII

So all too soon for her was found

Elsewhere a kindly thatch.

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And all too soon O-Shichi heard

Behind her close love's latch.

They led her from the temple's ground

Into untrysting days.

And all too soon that happy moon was hid in sorrow's haze.

IX

For now at dawn she rose to dress

With blooms some honored vase,

Or to embroider or brew tea's

Sweet ceremonial grace.

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