There in the garden, a little fox
Steals out at night, when no one is about,
And under the shadow of the autumn vines
He eats in secret the dewy bunch.
Love is no fox,
Nor you a bunch of grapes.
But unbeknown my heart stole out
And plucked you in secret, when no one was about.
Tr.
Takomichi Ninomiya & D.J. Enright. Tōson (1872-1943) was a leading
poet and novelist of the Meiji Era renewal of Japanese literature. There's a
directness and simplicity here that takes greater skill than some kinds of more
elaborate verse.
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