"The dewdrop"
The dewdrop
on a bamboo leaf
stays longer
than you, who vanish
at dawn.
Izmui Shikibu
Love Song
My love, we wil go, we will go, I and you,
And always in the woods we will scatter the dew;
And the slmon behold,and the ousel too,
My love I and you, we will hear, we will hear,
The calling afar the doe and the deer,
A the bird in the branches will cry for us clear,
And the cuckoo unseenin his festival mood;
And death, oh my fair one, will never come near
In the bosom afar of the fragrant wood.
W.B.YEATS
"THIS HEART IS NOT"
This heart is not.
a summer field,
and yet....
how dense love's foliage
has grown.
Izumi Shikibu
