Yamabe no Akahito Poems

The sturdy men
Leave for the hunt;
The maidens
Trail the hems of scarlet skirts
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On the islands off the coast,
The jewelled weeds on their rocky shores
With the rising tide
Is slowly hidden, then
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Heaven and earth:
Since the time they parted,
Of manifest divinity,
Reaching the heights of awe,
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All-knowing,
My great lord:
From the eternal palace,
Wherein we serve,
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When lily-seed dark
Night has fallen,
By the red-oak growing
Along the clear river's edge
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From the morrow
Would I pick new herbs
But in my marked out fields
Both yesterday and today
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At my house
I sowed and nurtured cockscomb
It withered, yet
No wiser, once again
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From the bay at Tago
I see, when gazing out,
Pure white-
On the heights of Fuji's peak-
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Off the beach at Waka
With the rising tide
The sandbanks vanish
Plunging to the reed beds
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On Abe Island's beaches
Where comorants dwell
Waves pound
Never ceasing at this time
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