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On a Summer Night

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The hazed early dawn light comes not from the moon

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But from the crystal white snow of Yoshino

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Nobody wishes to see

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Mount Amanokagu

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Tatsuta River Ablaze

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The storm blasts

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As friends and strangers

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I recall how my own efforts were in vain

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Scarlet kadsuras

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Leaving a hovering mist above the trees and grass

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So the flower petals are scattered like the snow by the passing storm

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Yet it is I who withers and wilts

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The emotions experienced

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As helpless autumn leaves are caught against the flow

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Takes me away in haste

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As my sleeves are wet with dew

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The storm will soon carry me

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Bring a life of everlasting love

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May the scarlet kadsuras

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To restore my faith

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Just as my beauty has faded

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Like a boatsman adrift

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When winds send waves crashing