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Take ni kite,
Yuki yori omoshi
Semi no koe.—Tōgetsu.
More heavy than winter-snow the voices of fetching semi:
See how the bamboos bend under the weight of their song!
Morogoe ni
Yama ya ugokasu,
Kigi no semi.
All shrilling together, the multitudinous semi
Make, with their ceaseless clamor, even the mountain move.
Kusunoki mo
Ugoku yō nari,
Semi no koe.—Baijaku.
Even the camphor-tree seems to quake with the clamor of semi!
Sometimes the sound is compared to the noise of boiling water:—
Hizakari wa
Nietatsu semi no
Hayashi kana!
In the hour of heaviest heat, how simmers the forest with semi!
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