Songs for Children Sung in Japan/Hōi, Hōi
Hōi, Hōi
Hakushū Kitahara
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“Hōi, hōi!” Someone calls,
Someone calls at the pier.
“Are there not some little ones
Who still have their big, big eyes
In this midnight open,
When the slender moon is peeping?”
In the rift of the clouds yonder,
A two-masted ship is at anchor,
With blue and square light shining.