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 | (Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman) |  |
松の葉の葉毎にむすぶ白露のおきてはこぼれこぼれてはおく
matsu no ha no
ha goto ni musubu
shiratsuyu no
okite wa kobore
koborete wa oku
to every needle
of the needled pine it clings—
the pearl white dew,
forming but to scatter,
scattering but to form
| (Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman) | |