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Dragon-flies and Sunshine
Tombō ya,
Hi no sasu katae
Tatte yuku!
O dragon-fly! ever towards the sun you rise and soar!
Hiatari no
Dote ya hinemosu
Tombo tobu.
Over the sunlit bank, all day long, the dragon-flies flit to and fro.
Go-roku sbaku
Onoga kumoi no
Tombo kana!
''Poor dragon-fly!—the [blue] space of five or six feet [above him] he thinks to be his own sky!
Tombō no
Muki wo soroeru
Nishi-bi kana!
Ah, the sunset glow! Now all the dragon-flies are shooting in the same direction.
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