{"collection":"shi","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/shi/msj/msj04.htm","path":"shi/msj/msj04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/shi/msj/msj04.htm","text":"The Master-Singers of Japan, by Clara A. Walsh, [1914]\nI see the jewels sparkle on each spray\n Of wind-swept moon-grass, as the reed-stems sway,\n I try to clasp them\u2014and they fade away\n In ice-cold dew.\nAgainst the turquoise of the April skies,\n Pink haze of blossom o\u2019er the landscape lies,\n I try to pluck it\u2014and its beauty dies,\n The petals fall.\nI hear a music thrilling time and space,\n Heart-songs of Poets of a hero race\n I try to sing them\u2014and their dainty grace\n Eludes me still!\n(From the \"Many\u014dshiu\")\nBy the Mikado Jomei\u2014A.D. 623\u201341\nLand of Yamato! of thy myriad hills,\n Peerless and fair stands forth this Heavenly mount\n Of high Amenokagu, from whose height,\n Climbing its lofty brow, I stand and gaze\n On the far-stretched champaign, whence faint blue smoke\n Curls from a thousand dwellings, to the skies\u2014\n On the sea-plain, always the circling gulls\n Rise flight on flight, and hover in the blue;\n \"Land of the Dragon-fly!\" O Land to love!\n Of rich abundance, and of fertile grain!\nA.D. 673\u201386\n(From the \"Many\u00f4shiu\")\nLo! on Mikan\u00e9's heights,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In fair Yoshino's Land, p. 22\n Tireless the snow alights\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On winding mountain ways;\n There the fierce-driven rain\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ever its rage displays.\n So, just as, ceaselessly,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Snow and rain fall,\n Dwell all my thoughts on thee,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Loved above all!\nBy Princess Nukata\u2014A.D. 673\u201376\nNow cometh Spring, all lightsomeness,\n \u00a0\u00a0From the ice-chains of Winter free,\n And birds, whose songs erstwhile were mute,\n \u00a0\u00a0Flood all the woods with melody.\nThe glades where late no blossom showed,\n \u00a0\u00a0Hills that were bare, are decked with flowers,\n But, in the tangle of the woods,\n \u00a0\u00a0I can scarce reach the songsters\u2019 bowers.\nMatted and thick with twining growths,\n \u00a0\u00a0Out of my reach the sweet buds blow,\n While in the Autumn, undeterred,\n \u00a0\u00a0I thread the copse, where red sprays glow. p. 23\nThrusting the duller browns aside,\n \u00a0\u00a0Choosing the tints with flame alight,\n Give me the Autumn hills that bring\n \u00a0\u00a0Deep breaths of pleasure and delight!","title":"The Master-Singers of Japan: I.","type":"page"}