Years have passed and only sounds of waters have come to my ears, <br />To-day, indeed, I may even count the ripples around the fishing net. <br /> <br />The pattern of the maple leaves in Autumn dyed with the rain - <br />Beautiful in the deep mountain! <br /> <br />The sound of the mountain brook gives an illusion of rain drops, <br />Yet the calm of the waning moon shines over all. <br /> <br />Even in our wandering journey, <br />The lonely moon accompanies us lighting us from the sky, <br />The waning moon I used to gaze at in the Royal City. <br /> <br />Undying affection! <br />Can it end at last, overlaid with time <br />Even as snow covers the land in the Northern Province? <br /> <br /> <br />Even a little pebble does not cease to be, <br />Though pressed under the snow of Hakusan; <br />So is my affection even though hidden. <br /> <br />Far from towns, in the heart of the mountain, <br />The cherry blooms, and wastes its blooms away <br />With none to see. <br /> <br />The outer world of many sorrows <br />Is not to be forgotten even here. <br />At the sound of the evening bell <br />Lonely grows my heart.<br /><br />Sugawara Takesue no Musume<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/years-have-passed/
