[The pen stills again - and this time when it writes, it's in Kanji.]
Having chanced to go mad, I became a wild beast. Calamity piled upon calamity - I cannot escape my fate. Who could now withstand my fangs and claws? Yet in student days I shared your bright promise- Now I have become a beast crouching in a thicket, While you ride grandly in an official's carriage. Tonight I gaze at the bright moon over the mountain. Unable to sing an Ode, I can only howl.'
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Having chanced to go mad, I became a wild beast.
Calamity piled upon calamity - I cannot escape my fate.
Who could now withstand my fangs and claws?
Yet in student days I shared your bright promise-
Now I have become a beast crouching in a thicket,
While you ride grandly in an official's carriage.
Tonight I gaze at the bright moon over the mountain.
Unable to sing an Ode, I can only howl.'