chikayoru

Updated: May 29, 2025

Saite yuke toya, ano ya wo saite; Yuke ba chikayoru nushi no soba. 'What is that? I ask my friend. He answers: 'A love-song. "Go forward, straight forward that way, to the house that thou seest before thee; the nearer thou goest thereto, the nearer to her shalt thou be."

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