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Friday 21 May 2021

While You Decline To Cry - Ō no Yasumaro

While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
Ō no Yasumaro (died 723) Japan
Translated by Michael R. Burch
Source: Poemist
Posted by Bruce-the-Sheep at 15:01

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