He sent me a solicitous letter, which did little to assuage my grief, containing this poem:

The image of the dawn moon
Now obscured by clouds
Must linger with you still.
How sorrowful a parting.
“Sorrow is the way of this world; yet how regrettable that his love was so extreme, his grief so deep.” [3.16]

sad girl



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