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In the summer, when the lotuses were at their best, the Third Princess dedicated to the chapel a holy image of Buddha made of sandalwood. The sight of the chapel moved Genji to tears. "And so here we sit side by side at a ceremony like this. Who would have expected it?" He wrote a poem that the separate drops of dew on the leaf of the lotus would share a lodging in the next world. She answered coldly: "Together, you say, in the lotus dwelling to come. But may you not have certain reservations?"
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