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Issa, (1763 - 1827)

The snow having melted,
the village
is full of children.
   
  The spring rain;
a little girl teaches
the cat to dance.
 
    A day of haze;
the great room
is deserted and still.
  An exhausted sparrow
in the midst
of a crowd of children.
 
It doesn't seem
very anxious to bloom,
this plum-tree at the gate.
   
  Even on a small island,
a man tilling the field,
a lark singing above it.
 

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