Hokku 20
"Let day pass, "Let night break," — So the frogs sing morning and eve.
Yone Noguchi
"Let day pass, "Let night break," — So the frogs sing morning and eve.
A small chorus of frogs is the whole occasion. Their song, as the speaker hears it, seems to form two simple instructions: “Let day pass, / Let night break.” Those words read like a chant or a gentle command, as if the frogs are guiding the world from daylight into dark and back again.
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