Take the child and go away.
Leave me alone by the night.
With each blow I will lose
the life in my limbs and finally, no more.
You mustn't see me die."
There seemed no way he could dissuade her
from her resolve to go it all by herself.
When he returned in the morning
the cottage was empty, nothing in sight
except the empty home.
He rushed with the child to the site
where once stood the Pine.
It was now lying on the ground.
They had chopped it into heavy logs
and were trying to load
all of that onto the raft and float
to the faraway shores of another land.
Matsuo and the boy stood aghast and watched
Matsuo with knowledge and the boy in ignorance.
And Matsuo saw that the raft would not move,
however hard they tried; it just would not float.
Leave me alone by the night.
With each blow I will lose
the life in my limbs and finally, no more.
You mustn't see me die."
There seemed no way he could dissuade her
from her resolve to go it all by herself.
When he returned in the morning
the cottage was empty, nothing in sight
except the empty home.
He rushed with the child to the site
where once stood the Pine.
It was now lying on the ground.
They had chopped it into heavy logs
and were trying to load
all of that onto the raft and float
to the faraway shores of another land.
Matsuo and the boy stood aghast and watched
Matsuo with knowledge and the boy in ignorance.
And Matsuo saw that the raft would not move,
however hard they tried; it just would not float.
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