“With the troubled eyes of a youth
I envied
Birds flying—
Flying they sang.”
Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) Japanese writer
A Handful of Sand ("Ichiaku no Suna"), as translated by Shio Sakanishi
“In a herber green, asleep where I lay,
The birds sang sweet in the mids of the day;
I dreamed fast of mirth and play.
In youth is pleasure, in youth is pleasure.”
Lusty Juventus http://www.umm.maine.edu/faculty/necastro/drama/juventus.txt (1557)
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