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In former times when Narihira, having fallen ill, felt that he was going to die, he wrote this poem:

Tsui ni yuku Michi to wa kanete Kikishikado Kinō kyō to wa Omowazarishi wo

That it is a road Which some day we all travel I had heard before, Yet I never expected To take it so soon myself.

(CXXV)

Translated by Richard Lane (I, LXV, LXIX)
and F. Vos (IV, LXIII, CXXV)