“Your hair has turned white
While your heart stayed
Knotted against me.
I shall never
Loosen it now.”

— Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

XXI, p. 23
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)

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