Songs of a Cowherd/A Keeper of the Hills

Songs of a Cowherd
by Itō Sachio, translated by Shio Sakanishi
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A Keeper of the Hills
1905

Warabi of Kamifusa oft says:
Mine is the soul of the cryptomeria.
Soothed is my soul with its sight;
Joyous is my heart with the hills.
Yearly I plant eight thousand cryptomeria.
Thus I shall end my life,
I, a keeper of the hills.”