In A Shinto Temple Garden

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Title:     In A Shinto Temple Garden
Author: Cale Young Rice [More Titles by Rice]

Under the torii, robed in green,
The old priest creeps to the shrine.
Over the bridge the still stork stands,
The crow caws not in the pine.

Far in the distance bugles blow,
War's bloody memory wakes.
The priest prays on--for his sons that are dead,
And the heart within him breaks.

[The end]
Cale Young Rice's poem: In A Shinto Temple Garden

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