Gleanings
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The volcano of Asama!
Multitudinous white naked children
Ascend to heaven
Amidst the smoke.
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The volcano of Asama!
The stillness of the violent thing!
The whirl of the platinum flame
Moves not even slightly.
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The flames of Asama
Neither approach nor recede.
The path of the determined soul
Is single and straight.
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On a day when the pond of Kumoba
Is shrouded in the rain,
The white birch trees
Seem as pure as nuns.
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