Monday, April 20, 2020

 

Celebration

Poem by Hiraga Motoyoshi (1799-1865), tr. Donald Keene, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 (New York: Grove Press, 1978), p. 508:
The spring has come
When, raising our voices
In a shout of triumph,
We will first celebrate
The destruction of the barbarians.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 9:44 AM


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