Eikyū hyakushu 181

Summer Insects (夏虫)

露のいのちはかなくみゆる夏虫のたれを思ひに身をこがすらん

tsuyu no inochi
hakanaku miyuru
natsumushi no
tare o omoi ni
mi ni kogasuran
A dewdrop life
So brief does seem;
The summer insects:
For whom might the fires of their passion
Set their flesh to smouldering?

Higo

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