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When women came to the garden in front of his residence:

koko ni si mo
nani niFoFuran
wominaFesi
Fito no mono'iFi
saganikuki yo ni
In such a place
Why do they bloom,
These maidenflowers?
Though people's tongues
Are full of malice in this world.

Archbishop Henjô

SIS XVII: 1098

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