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Table of Contents
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The Butterfly
7
Summer Night
9
While You Decline to Cry
11
The Old Pond
13
Autumn Moonlight
15
Dark-Bosomed Clouds
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Pausing Between Clouds
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The Butterfly
The butterfly perfuming its wings fans the orchid
- Matsuo Basho
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Summer Night
Summer night even the stars are whispering to each other.
- Isaa
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While You Decline to Cry
While you decline to cry, high on the mountainside a single stalk of plumegrass wilts.
- O no Yasumaro
9
The Old Pond
The old ponda frog jumps in, sound of water.
- Matsuo Basho
11
Autumn Moonlight
Autumn moonlight-a worm digs silently into the chestnut.
- Matsuo Basho
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Dark-Bosomed Clouds
Dark-bosomed clouds pregnant with heavy thunder ... the water breaks
- Michael R. Burch
15
Pausing Between Clouds
Pausing between clouds the moon rests in the eyes of its beholders
- Matsuo Basho
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