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Gate of Snow By Sagawa Chika

People’s outdated beliefs are piled up around that house
—Already pale like gravestones
Cool in summer warm in winter
For a moment I thought flowers had bloomed
But it was just a clump of aging snow

雪の門

その家のまはりには人の古びた思惟がつみあげられてゐる
――もはや墓石のやうに青ざめて
夏は涼しく　冬には温い
私は一時花が咲いたと思つた
それはとしとつた雪のひとかたまりであつた

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