Round Eighteen

Left

すゑの露もとのしづくやよの中のおくれさきだつためしなるらん

sue no tsuyu moto no shizuku ya yo no naka no okure sakidatsu tameshi naruran

The dewfall on the tips, or The droplets on the roots: for This world of ours, where We die, go on ahead, I wonder, are they a model?

35[i]

Right

ねがはくはしばしやみぢにやすらひてかかげやせましのりのともし火

negawaku wa shibashi yamiji ni yasuraite kakage ya semashi nori no tomoshibi

I have but one request: That from these tracks of darkness for a while I might escape– O, I would raise high The lantern of the Law.

36[ii]

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[i] SKKS VIII: 757: Topic unknown.

[ii] SKKS XX: 1931/1932: Amongst some poems of reminiscences.