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Life! Thou string of gems!

If thou art to end, break now.

For, if yet I live,

All I do to hide ( my love)

May at last grow weak (and fail).

百(ひゃく)人(にん)一(いっ)首(しゅ) #89 by 式(しき)子(し)内(ない)親(しん)王(のう)

Notes on this poem

Translation by Clay MacCauley via Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917

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