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Certain Noble Plays of Japan - From the manuscripts of Ernest Fenollosa by Ezra Pound
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From under the shadows of the love-grass,
See, see how they come forth and appear
For an instant.... Illusion!

SHITE
There is at the root of hell
No distinction between princes and commons;
Wretched for me! 'tis the saying.

WAKI
Strange, what seemed so very old a cave
Is all glittering-bright within,
Like the flicker of fire.
It is like the inside of a house.
They are setting up a loom,
And heaping up charm-sticks. No,
The hangings are out of old time.
Is it illusion, illusion?

TSURE
Our hearts have been in the dark of the falling snow,
We have been astray in the flurry.
You should tell better than we
How much is illusion;
You who are in the world.
We have been in the whirl of those who are fading.

SHITE
Indeed in old times Narihira said,
--and he has vanished with the years--
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