Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet
XXIII, p. 25
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)
“This Life is a fleeting breath,
And whither and how shall I go,
When I wander away with Death
By a path that I do not know?”
When I wander away with Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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