The river (Editor’s note: The Mogami is a river in Japan.) gathering May rains White cloud of mist from cold streamlets above white for the sea . . . cherry-blossoms Murmuring Mogami Dawn-shining mountains (Page 12) (Page 13) (The on this handout are taken from Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Seventeen-Syllable Poems, translated by Peter Beilenson [Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press]. Copyright © 1955–1956 by the Peter Pauper Press.)
The river gathering May rains from cold streamlets for the sea . . . Murmuring Mogami (Page 12) (Editor’s note: The Mogami is a river in Japan.) White cloud of mist above white cherry-blossoms Dawn-shining mountains (Page 13) (The on this handout are taken from Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Seventeen-Syllable Poems, translated by Peter Beilenson [Mount Vernon, NY: The Peter Pauper Press]. Copyright © 1955–1956 by the Peter Pauper Press.)
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