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A DAUGHTER OF THE SAMURAI

life home, two old voices completed the wedding-song with the words of welcome:

On the sea
A boat with lifted sail
Rides toward the rising moon.
On the waves of the flowing tide it comes.
The shadow of the past lies far behind,
And the boat sails nearer—nearer
To the shore called Happy Life.”