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In the reign of
the Emperor Nimmyo,

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when Ono no Komachi, the
strange girl poet, was 17,

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she set out looking
for her father, who

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had become a Buddhist wanderer.

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She took ill on her journey,
and sick in bed one night saw,

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as your radiance thus come,
medicine master, in a dream.

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He told her she would
find a hot springs

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on the bank of the Azuma river
in the Bandai mountains that

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would cure her, and she'd
meet her father there.

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Enchantment as blue
as the sky up above,

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my rose of San Antone.

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Tibetans believe that goddesses
have lapis lazuli hair.

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Azure, old French, azur, Arabic,
lazaward, Persian, lazhward,

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lapis lazuli, blue bead
charms against the evil eye.

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Hemp.

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Hemp, Cheremiss
and Zyrjan words,

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these two languages
being Finno-Ugric,

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a wandering culture
word of wide diffusion.

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Tim and Kim and Don
and I were talking

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about what an awful
authoritarian garb

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doctors and nurses wear,
really, how spooky it is.

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What should they wear?

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Masks and feathers.

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