The Master Singers of Japan Being Verse Translations From the Japanese Poets
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Such are the tidings that the runner brings, White-wanded messenger whose words I hear They pierce me, as the arrows from the strings Of white-wood bows the words that sting and sear ! Nor answer find I, neither comfort gain. Yet, to assuage a thousandth part my woe, Karu- wards wending, full of grief and pain, I listen for her accents sweet and low, Her voice I list for but alone I hear The wild-fowl screaming as they take their flight Across Unebi, to the shining mere. No form with sleeves up...lifted greets my sight The thronging folk upon the way I meet, Scanning their faces, but I never see A face like hers and so with weary feet I stumble on in hopeless misery. Onward I wend, and can but cry again The loved one's name, and wave my sleeve in vain ! ON WAKA'S SHORE 29 ENVOY ON DEATH OF HIS WIFE BY HITOMAKO Fain would I seek among the winding hill paths, Where ruddy clouds of foliage hide the ways, Her whom I love, who wanders ever further ; But all unknown the pathway where she strays 1 AKAHITO-YAMABENO FLOUBISHED ABOUT A.
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