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death songs:
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"none is travelling",
"here along this way but I",
"this autumn evening",
"the first day of the year",
"thoughts come and there is loneliness",
"the autumn dusk is here",
"an old pond",
"a frog jumps in",
"splash",
"old dark sleepy pool",
"quick unexpected frog",
"splashes in the water",
"lightening",
"heron's cry",
"stabs the darkness",
"clouds come from time to time",
"and bring to men a chance to rest",
"from looking at the moon",
"in the cicada's cry",
"there's no sign that can foretell",
"how soon it must die",
"poverty's child",
"he starts to grind the rice",
"and gazes at the moon",
"won't you come and see",
"loneliness just one leaf",
"from the tree",
"temple bells die out",
"the fragrant blossoms remain",
"a perfect evening",
"ballet in the air",
"twin butterflies",
"they meet they mate",
"black cloudbank broken",
"scatters in the night",
"moonlighted mountains",
"seek on high bare trails",
"sky reflecting violets",
"mountaintop jewels",
"for a lovely bowl",
"let us arrange these flowers",
"since there is no rice",
"now that eyes of hawks",
"in dusky night are darkened",
"chirping of the quails",
"april's air stirs in",
"willow leaves a butterfly",
"floats and balances",
"in the seasurf edge",
"mingling with bright small shells",
"bushclover petals",
"gathering may rains",
"from cold streamlets for the sea",
"murmuring river",
"white cloud of mist",
"above white cherry blossoms",
"dawnshining mountains",
"twilight whippoorwill",
"whistle on sweet deepener",
"of dark loneliness",
"mountain rose petals",
"falling falling falling now",
"waterfall music",
"I am one",
"who spends his little breakfast",
"morning glory gazing",
"seas are wild tonight ",
"stretching over sado island",
"silent clouds of stars",
"scrawny cat",
"starving for fat fish or mice ",
"or backyard love",
"dewdrop let me cleanse",
"in your brief sweet waters ",
"these dark hands of life",
"glorious the moon ",
"therefore our thanks dark clouds",
"come to rest our necks",
"under cherry trees",
"seasoned with petals",
"too curious flower",
"watching us pass met death ",
"our hungry donkey",
"cloud of cherry bloom ",
"tolling twilight",
"bell temple",
"must springtime fade",
"then cry all birds and fishes",
"cold pale eyes pour tears",
"such utter silence",
"even the crickets' singing ",
"muffled by hot rocks",
"swallow in the dusk ",
"spare my little buzzing friends",
"among the flowers",
"bright red pepperpod ",
"it needs but shiny wings and look ",
"darting dragonfly",
"wake the sky is light",
"let us to the road again ",
"companion butterfly",
"silent the old town ",
"the scent of flowers floating ",
"and evening bell",
"camellia petal",
"fell in silent dawn spilling",
"a water jewel",
"in the twilight rain",
"these brilliant hued hibiscus ",
"a lovely sunset",
"lady butterfly",
"perfumes her wings by floating",
"over the orchid",
"now the swinging bridge",
"is quieted with creepers ",
"like our tendrilled life",
"the sea darkening ",
"oh voices of the wild ducks",
"crying whirling white",
"nine times arising",
"to see the moon whose solemn pace",
"marks only midnight yet",
"here where a thousand captains ",
"swore grand conquest ",
"tall grass their monument",
"now in sad autumn",
"as I take my darkening path ",
"a solitary bird",
"will we meet again",
"here at your flowering grave ",
"two white butterflies",
"dry cheerful cricket",
"chirping keeps the autumn ",
"contemptuous of frost",
"first white snow of fall",
"just enough to bend the leaves",
"of faded daffodils",
"carven gods long gone ",
"dead leaves alone foregather",
"on the temple porch",
"cold first winter rain ",
"poor monkey you too could use",
"a little woven cape",
"no oil to read by ",
"I am off to bed",
"my moonlit pillow",
"this snowy morning",
"that black crow I hate so much ",
"but he's beautiful",
"if there were fragrance",
"these heavy snow flakes settling ",
"lilies on the rocks",
"see surviving suns",
"visit the ancestral grave ",
"bearded with bent canes",
"fever felled halfway",
"my dreams arose to march again ",
"into a hollow land",
"standing still at dusk listening",
"in far distances",
"the song of froglings",
"so gracious",
"see they flower",
"one now one later",
"the laden wagon runs",
"bumbling and creaking down the road ",
"three peonies tremble",
"lightning flash crash ",
"waiting in the bamboo grove",
"see three dewdrops fall",
"afternoon shower ",
"walking and talking in the street",
"umbrella and raincoat",
"sadness at twilight ",
"villain I have let my hand",
"cut that peony",
"in dim dusk and scent",
"a witness now half hidden ",
"evenfall orchid",
"voices of two bells",
"that speak from twilight temples ",
"refreshing exchange",
"deep in dark forest",
"a woodcutter's dull axe talking ",
"a woodcutter",
"butterfly asleep",
"folded soft on temple bell ",
"then bronze gong rang",
"see the morning breeze",
"ruffling his so silky hair ",
"cool caterpillar",
"a camellia",
"dropped down into still waters",
"of a deep dark well",
"in the holy dusk",
"nightingales begin their psalm ",
"good the dinner gong",
"a short summer night ",
"but in this solemn darkness",
"one peony bloomed",
"pebbles shining clear",
"and clear six silent fishes ",
"deep autumn water",
"a bright autumn moon ",
"in the shadow of each grass",
"an insect chirping",
"white chrysanthemum ",
"before that perfect flower",
"scissors hesitate",
"at future in rain",
"gray water and grey sand ",
"picture without lines",
"the old fisherman",
"unalterably intent ",
"cold evening rain",
"rainy month dripping",
"on and on as I lie abed ",
"ah old man's memories",
"slanting lines of rain ",
"on the dusty lute",
"a mouse is trotting",
"old weary willows ",
"I thought how long the road would be",
"when you went away",
"scampering over saucers ",
"the sound of a rat",
"cold cold",
"spring rain",
"telling a tale as they go",
"straw cape umbrella",
"spring rain",
"your soft whispers",
"sudden shower",
"grasping the grass blades",
"a shoal of sparrows",
"mosquito buzz",
"whenever honeysuckle",
"petals fall",
"while I turned my head",
"that traveler I had just passed ",
"melted into mist",
"after killing a spider",
"how lonely I feel",
"in the cold of night",
"so enviable ",
"maple leaves most glorious",
"contemplating death",
"a mountain village",
"under the piled up snow",
"water sounding",
"the summer river",
"although there is a bridge ",
"my horse goes through the water",
"hanging the lantern",
"on that full white blooming bough ",
"your care is exquisite",
"green shadow dances ",
"see our young banana tree",
"pattering the screen",
"for a cool evening",
"I hired the old temple porch ",
"penny in the dish",
"now my loneliness",
"following the fireworks ",
"look a falling star",
"long the summer day ",
"patterns on the ocean sand ",
"our idle footprints",
"fireworks ended",
"and spectators gone away ",
"and how vast and dark",
"by that fallen house",
"the pear tree stands full blooming ",
"an ancient battle site",
"oh I ate them all",
"and oh what a stomachache ",
"green stolen apples",
"autumn mosquitoes",
"buzz me bite me see I am",
"long prepared for death",
"such a little child",
"to send to be a priestling",
"icy poverty",
"eleven brave knights",
"canter through the whirling snow ",
"not one bends his neck",
"I gave the greetings",
"of the bright new year ",
"at our last parting",
"bending between boat and shore ",
"that weeping willow",
"oh sorry tomcat",
"bigger knights of love",
"have knocked you out",
"winter rain deepens",
"lichened letters on the grave ",
"and my old sadness",
"roaring winter storm",
"rushing to its utter end ",
"eversounding sea",
"but when I halted",
"on the windy street at twilight ",
"snow struck against me",
"now in late autumn",
"look on my old rubbish heap ",
"blue morning glory",
"none broke the silence ",
"nor visitor nor host nor",
"white chrysanthemum",
"flower in the stream",
"thus too my lovely life must end",
"another flower to fall and float away",
"dirty bathwater",
"where can I pour you ",
"insects singing in the grass",
"night is bright with stars",
"silly woman whimpering",
"shall I light the lamp",
"you stupid scarecrow",
"under your very sticky feet",
"birds are stealing beans",
"in the farther field",
"a scarecrow kept me company ",
"walking as I walked",
"one fallen flower",
"returning to the branch",
"a white butterfly",
"come come come out",
"from bogs old frogs command the dark",
"look at the stars",
"ah brave dragonfly ",
"taking for your perch this swatter",
"consecrate to death",
"many solemn nights",
"blond moon we stand and marvel ",
"sleeping our noons away",
"leaf alone fluttering",
"alas leaf alone fluttering ",
"floating down the wind",
"a sudden shower falls ",
"and naked I am riding",
"on a naked horse",
"summer shower ",
"naked horse",
"a naked rider",
"a frog and I",
"eyeball to eyeball",
"my empty face betrayed by lightning",
"cool breeze",
"tangled in a grassblade",
"step by step",
"up a summer mountain ",
"suddenly the sea",
"cries of wild geese",
"rumors spread about me",
"stillness ",
"clouds peak",
"in the lake",
"just by being",
"I am here ",
"in the snowfall",
"showering",
"onto the mountain",
"the milky way",
"what a moon ",
"if only my grumbling wife were here",
"in this windy nest",
"open your hungry mouth in vain ",
"stepchild bird",
"dew evaporates",
"and all our world is dew so dear",
"so fresh so fleeting",
"a gate made all of twigs",
"with woven grass for hinges ",
"for a lock this snail",
"arise from sleep old cat",
"and with great yawns and stretchings ",
"amble out for love",
"my little hut",
"is newly hatched I see ",
"blue morning glories",
"dim the grey cow comes",
"mooing mooing and mooing",
"out of the morning mist",
"what a peony ",
"demanding to be measured",
"by my little fan",
"a nursemaid scarecrow ",
"frightening the wind and sun",
"from playing baby",
"a saddening world",
"flowers whose sweet blooms must fall ",
"as we too alas ",
"children mimicking",
"cormorants you are more like",
"real cormorants than they",
"over the mountain",
"bright the full white moon now smiles ",
"on the flower thief",
"good friend grasshopper",
"will you play the caretaker",
"for my little grave",
"giddy grasshopper",
"take care do not leap and crush",
"these pearls of dewdrop",
"now be a good boy",
"take good care of our house",
"my child",
"good evening breeze",
"crooked and meandering",
"your homeward journey",
"the turnip farmer rose",
"and with a fresh pulled turnip ",
"pointed to my road",
"I am going out ",
"be good and play together",
"my cricket children",
"if strangers threaten",
"turn into fat green bullfrogs ",
"pond cooling melons",
"live in simple faith ",
"just as this trusting cherry",
"flowers fades and falls",
"oh do not swat them ",
"unhappy flies forever",
"wringing their thin hands",
"in the city fields",
"contemplating cherry trees ",
"strangers are like friends",
"yellow autumn moon ",
"unimpressed the scarecrow stands",
"simply looking bored",
"cruel autumn wind",
"cutting to the very bones ",
"of my poor scarecrow",
"I must turn over ",
"beware of local earthquakes",
"bedfellow cricket",
"visiting the graves ",
"trotting on to show the way ",
"old family dog",
"before boiled chestnuts",
"cross legged lad is squatting ",
"carved wooden god",
"nice wild persimmons ",
"and notice how the mother",
"eats the bitter parts",
"what a gorgeous one",
"that fat sleek huge old chestnut",
"I could not get at ",
"oh former renter",
"I know it all all down to",
"the very cold you felt",
"plume of pampas grass",
"trembling in every wind ",
"hush my lonely heart",
"considerate dogs ",
"stepping off into the snow",
"as I walk the path",
"god on the hill ",
"from your holy face",
"an icicle hangs",
"the orphan speaks",
"the year end party",
"I am even envious of scolded children",)