The Flowering of Racial Spirit/A Magnificent Design
A Magnificent Design
(Greeting the Fifth Commemoration Day of July Seventh.)
By means of legs and will,Our soldiers have drawn an infinitely expanded map.
Already all seas and mountains and airs are our possession.Submarines overflowing with rigorous willRepose among the coral flowers,Astounding the tropical fishes with absurd jaws and fins.The beautiful Japanese language hasSpread across seas and mountains.On numberless Oriental cities and several hundred million lips,The words were strewn like pollen. History, today, is not to be criticized,But blind wisdom itself is examined by it.In olden times, the earth transformed itself by earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions.Today—mortals with will are performing such phenomena.To relate plausibly that on the summit of a mountain tens of thousands feet above sea level we can find fishes, etc., is already a mediocre speech.If we calmly close our eyes at the dead of night,The thunderous sounds of the world’s transformation deafen our ears.There were countries named Britain and America,Whose flags were fashioned out of the cheap combination of red and blue.Their colours faded away and became white flags.On the white ground, with thick red blood, A beautiful Sun was painted.As there is no pen, nor ink, nor paper to depict it with,Such a gigantic age is today.By her fortitude and sacrifices,Our Fatherland, Japan, has grown up.Such numberless great stories were created that are beyond the faculties of the writer.
The beautiful Japanese language hasSpread across seas and mountains.Lukouchiao has become the Mecca for the restoration of the world.The words “July Seventh” (7-7) have now revived for the fifth time,And have become the most beautiful words on earth.
(The 7th day of July, 1942.)