Nature
Short Stanza VIII: Whom would your cries, with artful calumny
Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1900) · From Short Stanzas
Nature
Whom would your cries, with artful calumny,
Accuse of scatt'ring the pale cherry-flow'rs?
'Tis your own pinions flitting through these bow'rs
That raise the gust which makes them fall and die!
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By Sosei.
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Classical Japanese Poets. “Short Stanza VIII: Whom would your cries, with artful calumny.” Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/classical-japanese-poets/51/.
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Classical Japanese Poets. “Short Stanza VIII: Whom would your cries, with artful calumny.” Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/classical-japanese-poets/51/.
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