{"collection":"shi","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/shi/msj/msj18.htm","path":"shi/msj/msj18.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/shi/msj/msj18.htm","text":"The Master-Singers of Japan, by Clara A. Walsh, [1914]\n(Born 11\u2014; died 1198)\nA famous poet of noble birth. He was one of the pages at the Court of the Mikado. One day he parted with a fellow-page, saying good-bye cheerfully, and promising to call on him on his way to Court next day, The same evening Saigy\u014d was surprised and horrified to hear of his friend's sudden death. This impressed him so much, that he left the Court and his companions, and his happy family, and became a monk, travelling through the country for many years, and composing many beautiful poems.\nBy Saigy\u014d\u201412th Century\nPassing along the highway, when we see\n The shadows of the willows floating cool\n In a clear spring of water, then we pause\n As fellow-travellers to rest awhile;\n \u00a0\u00a0Loth to pass on, we linger.\nBy Saigy\u014d\nWe know not what the Temple may enshrine,\n Yet feel the influence of things divine,\n \u00a0\u00a0And pray with grateful tears!\nThe sadness of the moon-night fills my thoughts\n With vague reflections of past hopes and fears.\n Sad as the clouded moon my countenance\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With eyes bedewed with tears.\nThe deep snow piled upon the mountain-peaks,\n Melting, transforms the river's clear cascade\n Into a foaming torrent whose white waves\n Rush on their course resistless and unstayed.\nStrong blows the evening wind and cool,\n \u00a0\u00a0There where the marshlands silent lie,\n Where the lone snipe stands by the pool,\n \u00a0\u00a0Mirrored against a sullen sky.\n Filled with compassion undefined,\n \u00a0\u00a0Into my heart the silence steals.\n To the vague loneness of the mind\n \u00a0\u00a0The Autumn loneliness appeals!","title":"The Master-Singers of Japan: XVII.","type":"page"}