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A Japanese miscellany - University of Oregon

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! ! ! !<br />

Dragon-flies 109<br />

Go-roku shaku<br />

Onoga kumoi no<br />

Tombo kana<br />

Poor dragon-fly ! — the [blue] space <strong>of</strong> five or six feet<br />

[above him] he thinks to be his own sky<br />

Ah, the sunset-glow ! Now<br />

Tombo no<br />

Muki wo soroeru<br />

Nishi-hi kana<br />

shooting in the same direction.<br />

!<br />

!<br />

all the dragon-flies are<br />

Tombo ya<br />

Sora e hanarete<br />

Kurekakari,<br />

Dusk approaches : see ! the dragon-flies have risen<br />

toward the sky<br />

O dragon-fly ! you<br />

appears I<br />

Hoshi hitotsu<br />

Miru made asobu<br />

Tombo kana<br />

continue to sport until the first star

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