_Is this the turning of_ En?--_am I caught in the Wheel of
Karma?_
_That, alas! is a wheel not to be moved from the rut!_[9]
[Footnote 9:
Meguru en kaya?
Kuruma no watashi
Hiku ni hikarénu
Kono ingwa.
There is a play on words in the original which I have not attempted
to render. The idea is of an unhappy match--either betrothal or
marriage--from which the woman wishes to withdraw when too late.]