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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

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