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Yama gawa ni Kaze no kaketaru Shigarami wa Nagare mo aenu Momiji nari keri. THE stormy winds of yesterday The maple branches shook; And see! a mass of crimson leaves Has lodged within that nook, And choked the mountain brook. The writer of this verse died in the year 864.
Source: Internet Sacred Text Archive, file shi/hvj/hvj033.htm.
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