a tanka by Ariwara No Narihara

Tsui ni yuku
Michi to wa kanete
Kikishi kado
Kino kyo to wa
Omowazarishi wo

I have always known
That at last I would
Take this road, but yesterday
I did not know that it would be today.

translated by Kenneth Rexroth

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