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Running away
From the window of a classroom,
Alone,
I lay down among the ruins of a castle.

— Takuboku Ishikawa

Kyoshitsu no
Mado yori nigete
Tada hitori
Kano shiro-ato ni
Ne ni yukishi ka na

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Notes from Wikiquote

Quoted in Modern Japanese Literature, ed. Donald Keene (New York: Grove Press, 1960), p. 208

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With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.

Like to a stone
That rolls down a hill,
I have come to this day.

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