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Composed on hearing that a man had come calling on a night when it was raining heavily on a woman who had told him not to come again.

mikasa yama
sasiFanarenu to
kikisikado
ame mo yo ni to Fa
omoFisi mono wo
The Mount of Mikasa
Is very far from you,
I’d heard;
Surely, not in such rain,
Or so I did think!

Izumi Shikibu

GSIS XVI: 927

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