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32

TSURAKI HARUMICHI

HARUMICHI NO TSURAKI

  Yama gawa ni
Kaze no kaketaru
  Shigarami wa
Nagare mo aenu
Momiji nari keri.

THE stormy winds of yesterday
  The maple branches shook;
And see! a mass of crimson leaves
  Has lodged within that nook,
  And choked the mountain brook.

The writer of this verse died in the year 864.


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