Autumn clouds, vague and obscure;
The evening, lonely and chill.
I felt the dampness on my garments,
But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.
漠漠秋雲起，稍稍夜寒生。
但覺衣裳濕，無點亦無聲。
但覺衣裳濕，無點亦無聲。
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微雨夜行 ("Walking at Night in Fine Rain"), as translated in Reginald Horace Blyth's Haiku: Eastern Culture, Vol. I (Hokuseidō Shoten, 1950), p. 56; quoted in Alan Watts's Nature, Man and Woman (1958)