Tanka III
Drink in moods of joy! Why should the sky be lonely? Neither sun nor moon-- How my heart is shy of night Like Autumn’s leaf brown pendants.
Lewis Alexander
Drink in moods of joy! Why should the sky be lonely? Neither sun nor moon-- How my heart is shy of night Like Autumn’s leaf brown pendants.
The speaker begins with a gentle command to take in joy while it is available. Then the sky becomes a kind of companion—lonely, empty, with neither sun nor moon to light it.
Les hele sammendraget