at the top of each verse, compose/recite the heart/essence of a journey”--with his saying this, what was composed (was):   

    "Chinese robes, wearing them and grown close, a wife I have,      

    So it’s a journey on which I’ve come a far way, that I have in mind."

and when it had been recited, all of them dropped tears on their dried rice, and it swelled right up. 

                                       

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