The Same Day Dawns

The still drone of the time past midnight 
All words put out
Men are sunk Into the sweetness of sloop
Even the farfung world
Has put aside its rages for sleep
Only I am awake

The time I went to see my brother
Whom I loved unendurably
The winter night's river wind was so cold 
that the sanderlings were crying

Horses, blown by the whirlwind
Tread the clouds
A thousand miles of moonlight
The waves are huge as mountains
A thousand miles have whirled away in the wind
There is no way back

O my lord jasmine
O mango tree
O moonlight
O swarm of bees
O Ko-il bird
Call out and show him to me
My lord white as jasmine

Joy

How can one ever know?
Wy thoughts this morning
Are as tangled as my hair?

When will there be  an end
Of old and new?

Less than a day
In paradise
And a thousand years
Have passed
Aming men

— Tacet —

Ah

Who is your mother?
I am she
Who is your sister?
I am she
The same da dawns
For you and me
This is the same day
We shall see

O my lord jasmine
O mango tree
O moonlight
O swarm of bees
O Ko-il bird
Call out and show him to me
My lord white as jasmine

— Tacet —

The wind sleeps
To lullabies of sky
Spaces drowses
Infinity gives it suck
From her breast
The sky is slent
The lullaby is over

Green, gold
Fly white sky
Fraying, fluttercatching
Peck, proud finch

The time I went to see my brother
Whom I loved unendurably
The winter night's river wind was so cold 
that the sanderlings were crying

The still drone of the time past midnight 
All words put out
Men are sunk Into the sweetness of sloop
Even the farfung world
Has put aside its rages for sleep
Only I am awake