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Episode Synopsis

References of the literary works read in the following order:
William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
Sima You [1091 jinshi]
Paul Laurence Dunbar, “By the Stream”
Annette Wynne, “One Little Cloud Is Out To-day”
John Wilson, “The Cloud”
Hans Christian Andersen, "The Cloud"
William Cullen Bryant, “To a Cloud”
John B. Tabb, “A Legacy”
Chen Xunzhi, “Cantos on Pacing the Void at Nine Locks, with a Prelude”
Ruby Archer, “A Little Cloud”
Frank Dempster Sherman, “Clouds”
Rabindranath Tagore, “Stray Birds”
Victor Hugo, “The Vanished City”
Charles Baudelaire, “The Stranger”
Alexander Pushkin, “The Cloud”
Murasaki Shikibu, "The Tale of Genji"
Li Po
Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali 18”
"The Mabinogion", Wales c. 1350–1410
Omar Khayyám, "The Rubáiyát”
Cao Zhi, "The Lonely Cloud"
Su Shi, "Remembering the Hermit":
Mikhail Lermontov, “The Cloud”
Aristophanes, "The Clouds"
Adam Mickiewic, "Clouds Over the Hills"
Maurice Maeterlinck, "The Life of the Bee"
Kalidasa, "The Cloud Messenger"
Elias Lönnrot, "Kalevala"
Berthold Auerbach, "On the Heights" 
A poem composed by Prince Ōtsu, weeping, at Iware Pond, when he was due to die [MAN'YŌSHŪ MYS III: 416]
Osip Mandelstam, "Poems of Osip Mandelstam"
“From a poetry contest at Sadafumi’s house” [Uta’Awase 19]
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Cloud"

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