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SOME HOKKU SPECIMENS BY THE MASTERS
"To-day, at last to-day,
I grew to wish to raise
The chrysanthemum flowers."
Ransetsu.
"Autumn's full moon;
Lo, the shadows of a pine tree
Upon the mats!"
Kikaku.
"Yellow chrysanthemum, white chrysanthemum:
Why, the other names for me
Are of no use."
Ransetsu.
"'Let day pass,
Let night break.'
The frogs sing—they sing morning and eve."
Buson.
"Ah, how sublime—
The green leaves, the young leaves,
In the light of the sun!"
Basho.
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