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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: the butterflies --!]
Rakkwa eda ni
Kaeru to mireba --
Kocho kana!
[When I saw the fallen flower return to the branch -- lo! it was only a
butterfly! [7]]
Chiru-hana ni --
Karusa arasou
Kocho kana!
[How the butterfly strives to compete in lightness with the falling
flowers! [8]]
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