A thing which fades With no outward sign - Is the flower Of the heart of man In this world!
"Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-nineteenth Century" edited by Donald Keene, translated by Arthur Waley, Allen & Unwin, (p. 78), 1955.
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