"Handsome, youthful, fixed of face,
He doth supplicate
"Set my Lady Haru free
From her evil state!
Hear the prayer of Itô, Lord of Grace!"
"'Tak'st,' I asked him, 'no repose?'
'Holy Sir!' he said,
'Prayer is all that I may offer.
Might I guard her bed
All Hell's fiends these eyes should never close!'
"Being but your foot-soldier
Itô dares not speak!"
Quoth the Shogun, "Let him be
Taicho—Captain! Seek
Only how to save our daughter here!"
Therefore, with those maids fourscore,
And those statesmen five,
Soldier Itô kept the watch.
Hardly half-alive
Lay the gentle Lady, moaning sore.
