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The ceremony is a very solemn one, takes place in the Phochix Hall ofthe Fineiah Palace ands raided by the Playing of religious Shinto" music. The, clash and Jangle of a busy city's din is for the time being forgotten, and more than one turns his gaze towards the burnished copper roofs of the Imperial Palace, half-veiled, yet di Sernible through the nebulous, semi transparent. winter vapour.
'The poems are here set forth in|?) Japanese lad with rendering into English verse. nnust, however, be understood in the translation, a great deal of the original beauty, of the light and shade, of the melody intended by' the writer, is unfortunately, but of necessity, lost:—
The Emperor's Poem
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.