harul

Updated: May 22, 2025

And here is a lover's inscription in English! Who presumes to suppose that the gods know English? Some student, no doubt, who for pure shyness engraved his soul's secret in this foreign tongue of mine never dreaming that a foreign eye would look upon it. 'I wish You, Harul' Not once, but four no, five times! each time omitting the preposition.

Lafcadio Hearn - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan : First Series