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_Seeing the face, at once the folly I wanted to utter_

_All melts out of my thought, and somehow the tears come first!_[7]

[Footnote 7:

Iitai guchi sayé

Kao miriya kiyété

Tokakii namida ga

Saki ni deru.

The use of _tokaku_ ("somehow," for "some reason or other") gives a

peculiar pathos to the utterance.]

X

_Crying for joy made wet my sleeve that dries too quickly;_

_'T is not the same with the heart,--that cannot dry so soon!_

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