‘This is when he came,’ I think,
Still full of longing;
In the evening gloom
The image of his face alone
Is all I can see.
(Ki no Tsurayuki)
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- With a song he tried to keep (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)
- The morning mists (Ki no Tsurayuki Poems)
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