The darkness rolls upward.
The thick darkness carries with it
Rain and a ravel of cloud.
The sun comes forth upon earth.
 
Palely the dawn
Leaves me facing timidly
Old gardens sunken:
And in the gardens is water.
 
Sombre wreck-autumnal leaves;
Shadowy roofs
In the blue mist,
And a willow-branch that is broken.
 
O old pagodas of my soul, how you glittered across green trees!
 
Blue and cool:
Blue, tremulously,
Blow faint puffs of smoke
Across sombre pools.
The damp green smell of rotted wood;
And a heron that cries from out the water.