Green Food For A Queen

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Title:     Green Food For A Queen
Author: Edward Powys Mathers [More Titles by Mathers]

I was gathering
Leaves of the Wakana
In springtime.
Why did the snow fall
On my dress?

From the Japanese of the Mikado Ko-ko Ten-no, (ninth century).

[Note: WAKANA, the turnip cabbage, whose leaves are eaten in early spring. The Mikado is lamenting a sudden realisation that he is too old for his love.]

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Edward Powys Mathers's poem: Green Food For A Queen

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