Alone One Night

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Title:     Alone One Night
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

This night,
Long like the drooping feathers
Of the pheasant,
The chain of mountains,
Shall I sleep alone?

From the Japanese of Kaik-no Motto-no Hitomaro
(seventh and eighth centuries).

[The end]
Edward Powys Mathers's poem: Alone One Night

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