Yone Noguchi

Yone Noguchi

Out of the deep and the dark,A sparkling mystery, a shape,Something perfect,Comes like the stir of the day:One whose breath is an odor,Whose eyes show the road to stars,The breeze in his face,The glory of heaven on his back.He steps like a vision hung in air,Diffusing the passion of eternity;His abode is the sunlight of morn,The music of eve his speech:In his sight,One shall turn from the dust of the grave,And move upward to the woodland.

Out of the deep and the dark,A sparkling mystery, a shape,Something perfect,Comes like the stir of the day:One whose breath is an odor,Whose eyes show the road to stars,The breeze in his face,The glory of heaven on his back.He steps like a vision hung in air,Diffusing the passion of eternity;His abode is the sunlight of morn,The music of eve his speech:In his sight,One shall turn from the dust of the grave,And move upward to the woodland.

Out of the deep and the dark,A sparkling mystery, a shape,Something perfect,Comes like the stir of the day:One whose breath is an odor,Whose eyes show the road to stars,The breeze in his face,The glory of heaven on his back.He steps like a vision hung in air,Diffusing the passion of eternity;His abode is the sunlight of morn,The music of eve his speech:In his sight,One shall turn from the dust of the grave,And move upward to the woodland.

Out of the deep and the dark,

A sparkling mystery, a shape,

Something perfect,

Comes like the stir of the day:

One whose breath is an odor,

Whose eyes show the road to stars,

The breeze in his face,

The glory of heaven on his back.

He steps like a vision hung in air,

Diffusing the passion of eternity;

His abode is the sunlight of morn,

The music of eve his speech:

In his sight,

One shall turn from the dust of the grave,

And move upward to the woodland.

I HAVE CAST THE WORLD

I have cast the world,and think me as nothing.Yet I feel cold on snow-falling day,And happy on flower day.

I have cast the world,and think me as nothing.Yet I feel cold on snow-falling day,And happy on flower day.

I have cast the world,and think me as nothing.Yet I feel cold on snow-falling day,And happy on flower day.

I have cast the world,

and think me as nothing.

Yet I feel cold on snow-falling day,

And happy on flower day.


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