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into a lute, whose sound beautifully re-echoed seven miles away. Some one sang, saying:

“Karanu was burned for salt;
The part that was left was made into a lute;
Oh, when, struck, listen, it sounds
Like the wet trees standing
Hocked on the reefs in the middle of the wave,
In the middle of the Yura Sea.”