Death & Dying
Short Stanza on the Same Occasion
Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1900) · From Elegies
Death & Dying
So young, so young! he cannot know the way:--
On Hades' porter I'll a bribe bestow,
That on his shoulders the dear infant may
Be safely carried to the realms below.
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Codex Note
Attributed to Okura.
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Classical Japanese Poets. “Short Stanza on the Same Occasion.” Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/classical-japanese-poets/31/.
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Classical Japanese Poets. “Short Stanza on the Same Occasion.” Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/classical-japanese-poets/31/.
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