{"collection":"shi","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/shi/msj/msj17.htm","path":"shi/msj/msj17.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/shi/msj/msj17.htm","text":"The Master-Singers of Japan, by Clara A. Walsh, [1914]\nBy Tachibane no Masato\n\u00a0\u00a0In the chill Autumn breeze\n A lonely insect weeping\n \u00a0\u00a0Heavy dew-tears forlorn.\n Tell me, what feelings sweeping\n \u00a0\u00a0Through its heart, passion-torn,\n Shake its frail frame with weeping?\nGone is the barrier that of old\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Had crossed my way,\n But in its place my eyes behold,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As on I stray\u2014\n The wild winds sweep a scented cloud\n Of fluttering petals from the cherry-trees\u2014\n Into the narrow pathway, where they crowd\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Whirled by the breeze\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And bid my footsteps stay,\nThe gold sun shimmering in noontide skies\n Shines down, where the red-burnished dragonflies\n Flit to and fro in the translucent haze\n Over the village of eventless days!\nBy Tomonori\u2014Early 10th Century\nThe cherry-blossom gleams, a pearly haze,\n Across the landscape, far as eye can see,\n Like mist-wreaths veiling in their shifting maze\n Yoshino's mountain-gorges\u2019 mystery.\nBy Teitoku\nWould that some stranger hitherward would stray,\n Unto whose wondering eyes I might display\n The blossoms' glory in spring sunrise glowing,\n Rose-pink of dawn upon a mist of grey,\n Yoshino's cherries on her mountains blowing.","title":"The Master-Singers of Japan: XVI.","type":"page"}