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THE GRATEFUL FOXES

(A Japanese Story, in the Japanese Manner.)

PART I.

In the month when cherry-trees
Paint the spring-time pink,
Lady Haru, with her maids,
Sate at Kodzu's brink:
Good it is to live on days like these!

Rosy as a Musmee's lips,
Red as blood on snow,
Bloomed the jewelled branches forth:
Rice-birds chirped below:
Over silver seas went white-sailed ships.

All about the blossoming rape,—

Glad to own its gold—
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