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Kinkai wakashū 469

しらやまにふりてつもれる雪なれば下こそきゆれうへはつれなし

shirayama ni
furite tsumoreru
yuki nareba
shita koso kiyure
ue wa tsurenashi

On Mount Shirayma, so white,
Fallen and drifted is
The snow:
Beneath it vanishes away, while
Atop ‘tis cruelly chill.

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