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On the third day there was the (slighter) dressing (of the corpse).
While the body was on the couch it was called the corpse;
when it was put into the coffin, it was called jiu.
At the moving of the corpse, and lifting up of the coffin,
(the son) wailed and leaped, times without number.
Such was the bitterness of his heart,
and the pain of his thoughts,
so did his grief and sorrow fill his mind and agitate his spirit,
that he bared his arms and leaped,
seeking by the movement of his limbs to obtain some comfort to his heart and relief to his spirit.
The women could not bare their arms,
and therefore they (merely) pushed out the breast, and smote upon their hearts, moving their feet with a sliding, hopping motion, and with a constant, heavy sound,
like the crumbling away of a wall.
The expression of grief, sorrow, and deep-seated pain was extreme;
hence it is said,
'With beating of the breast and movement of the feet,
did they sorrowfully accompany the body;
so they escorted it away,
。」 and so did they come back to meet its essential part.'


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