Poems
in Eikô,
Issue 201
March 25, 1953
英傑と 世に称へらるる人よりも 万人慕ふ人望む吾 | ||||
78 |
Being universally held in |
S6-302A; previous translations in Prayers and Gosanka, page 77A, Prayers and Poems, page 77A, Sounds of the Dawn, Volume II, pages 33 & 155, #68, and Book of Gosanka, page 12, #48; all translations based on non-Meishu-sama text 英傑と 世に称へらるる人よりも 万人慕ふ人望む吾は | ||
Prayers and Gosanka I have no desire / To become a great hero / Who is glorified / By the world, I wish only / To be loved by other men. |
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Prayers and Poems I have no desire / To become a great hero / Who is glorified / By the world, I wish only / To be loved by others. |
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Sounds of the Dawn, Volume II, translation I have no desire / To become a great hero / Glorified by all. / I wish only to be loved, / Be one with my fellow man. | ||||
Book of Gosanka To be a person / Praised by all as a hero / Is not what I wish; / Instead, I wish to be one, / Love by thousands of people. | ||||
幾万の 人の命を生贄に せる英雄の偶像あはれ | ||||
79 | Pitiful is the Image of heroes who Sacrifice the lives of Millions of human beings On the altar of their own fame. |
S6-302C. | ||
文化的 野蛮の現世を文化的 文明の世に吾立直すなり |
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80 | I, Mokichi Okada, am re- Building the cultural Barbarism of our world Into a place that enjoys Cultured civilization. |
S6-302C. | ||