Nature
Short Stanza XXI: A thousand years of happy life be thine!
Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1900) · From Short Stanzas
Nature
A thousand years of happy life be thine!
Live on, my lord, till what are pebbles now,
By age united, to great rocks shall grow,
Whose venerable sides the moss doth line!
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Classical Japanese Poets. “Short Stanza XXI: A thousand years of happy life be thine!” Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/classical-japanese-poets/64/.
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Classical Japanese Poets. “Short Stanza XXI: A thousand years of happy life be thine!” Translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/classical-japanese-poets/64/.
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