27th—I intended to keep a sweet fashion of old Japan in presenting a poem at my sayonara.
We will take leave to-morrow.
O gracious graceful poet abode!
My farewell poem in seventeen syllable form is as follows:
“Sayonara no
Ureiya nokore
Mizu no neni!”
“Remain, oh, remain,
My grief of sayonara,
There in water sound!”