We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage /
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, /
We Poets of the proud old lineage /
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ...
(James Elroy Flecker)
Public domain. Japanese Two-Panel Screen, Old Pine and Moon（artist unknown.）Late 17th-Early 18th Century.
old pine
leans on the wind
hill slants away
they cup the full moon
gold light spills past them
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