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Even on the smallest islands

by Kobayashi Issa

Kobayashi Issa

Even on the smallest islands,
they are tilling the fields,
skylarks singing.




Quotes of the Day

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese,local, but prized elsewhere

• W. H. Auden



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    Indications, The.
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