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Poet Sagawa Chika Late Gathering
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A Group of Verse
1

The house is warm in winter, cool in summer —
But the cloth of the awning ripples and flutters,
The leaves of the shade-tree are uneasy,
The twigs of the bushes keep nodding.

2

The twigs of our neighbor’s bush are so thin,
I can hardly see the black lines;
The green leaves seem to float in the air.

3

I thought for a moment, The bush in the backyard has blossomed:
It was only some of the old leaves covered with snow.

4

A black horse and a white horse, pulling a truck this winter day,
As the smoke of their nostrils reaches to the ground,
Seem fabulous.

5

The days are long again, the skies are blue;
The hedges are green again, the trees are green;
Only the twigs of the elms are dark.
At night the wind is cold again;
But by day the snow of your absence is melting:
Soon May will be here and you the queen of the May.

1

その家は冬に暖い、夏は涼しく―― 日覆の布ばかりが波のやうにそして翻つてゐる。陰をつくる木の葉らは不安気にして、茂みの枝はうなづいてゐる。

私らの隣の茂みの枝は非常に細い。その黒い線は殆んど見えない。緑の葉は空中に浮いて見える。

私はちよつとの間、裏庭の茂みには花が咲いてゐたと思つた。それは雪で包まれた老いた葉のいくらかであつた。

一頭の黒い馬と白い馬、この冬の日にトラツクを曳いてゐる。彼らの鼻孔から息が煙となつて地面にとどくので、おばけのやうに見える。

再び日は長い。空は青、生垣は緑になつた。樹は緑、楡の枝ばかりが暗い。夜風は冷たい。併し昼はあなたの不在の雪が融けてゐる。まもなく五月はここへ来るだらう。さうすれば五月の女王のあなたも。

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