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1886–1950

Toyonobu. Exile's Return

John Gould Fletcher

The cranes have come back to the temple, The winds are flapping the flags about, Through a flute of reeds I will blow a song.

Let my song sigh as the breeze through the cryptomerias, And pause like long flags flapping, And dart and flutter aloft, like a wind-bewildered crane.

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