“Gossip grows like weeds
In a summer meadow.
My girl and I
Sleep arm in arm.”

—  Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

XIX, p. 21
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)

Original

Hito goto wa Natsu no no kusa to Shigeku to mo Imo to ware to shi Tazusawarineba

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