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Songs of a Cowherd/Lotus Flowers

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Songs of a Cowherd
by Itō Sachio, translated by Shio Sakanishi
4621272Songs of a CowherdShio SakanishiItō Sachio

Lotus Flowers

(August 8)

I put in the alcove
A vase of pink lotus flowers
And the house is filled with their scent.

As if to say
Things of the world
Come to nought in the end,
A petal of a lotus bloom
Begins to fall.