Day by day I float my paper boats
In bid black letters I write my n
I hope that someone in some strang
I load my little boats with shiuli
I launch my paper boats and look u

The workman and his wife from the
Their little daughter goes to the
Her little brother, with shaven he
She goes back home with the full p
One day I saw this naked boy sitt

Tired of waiting, you burst your b
the winter had gone. Glimpses of t
wayside watch, and you rushed out
jasmines, troops of riotous roses.
You were the first to march to the

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THE trees come up to my window
like the yearning voice of the dum
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HIS own mornings are new surprise

If you would have it so, I will e
If it sets your heart aflutter, I
If it suddenly startles you in you
If it confuses you in your flower-
If it makes the water wanton and w

You came to my door in the dawn an
You came in the noon and asked for
You came in the evening with your
You seemed to me like a terror and
Now in the midnight I sit alone i

Palm-tree: single-legged giant,
topping other trees,
peering at the firmament —
It longs to pierce the black cloud
and fly away, away,

The song I came to sing
remains unsung to this day.
I have spent my days in stringing
and in unstringing my instrument.
The time has not come true,

Ah, these jasmines, these white ja
I seem to remember the first day w
these jasmines, these white jasmin
I have loved the sunlight, the sky
I have heard the liquid murmur of

There is room for you. You are al
My boat is crowded, it is heavily
away? Your young body is slim and
smile in the edge of your eyes, an
rain cloud.