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A poem of love, longing and the shadow of endings written in mid-to-late 8th century Japan by Lady Heguri, and addressed to “Yakamochi”:
A thousand years, you said
As our two hearts melted.
I look at the hand you held
And the ache is too hard to bear.
(source: The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse)