Faith


276	浮草の　漂ふ如き運命もつ　人にかあらむ信仰無き人
	Like weeds floating Upon the water Will be the fate Of the people who Have no faith.	#1, page 62, S6-98A
	S5-489C 浮草の　漂ふにも似し運命もつ　人にかあらむ信仰なければ. In an untitled set of poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 19, #3, page 1, December 25, 1950; previous translations, Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity, page 36C; Prayers and Gosanka, page 36C; Prayers and Poems, page 36C; Book of Gosanka, page 35, #139.

		Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity translation Poor non-believers! In future, their / lives will be / Like weeds floating upon the water, / Not knowing where they will go.
		Prayers and Gosanka translation Poor non-believers! / In future their lives will be / Just like weeds floating / Upon the moving waters / Not knowing where they will go.
		Prayers and Poems translation Those without faith— / In the future their lives will be / Just like weeds floating / Upon the moving waters, / Not knowing where they will go.
		Book of Gosanka translation One with doubtful fate, / Drifting here and there about / Like floating duckweed— / Is one who does not know God, / Has no faith in Him at all.

277	儚なきは　此現世にあり乍ら　神に頼らで進む人なる
	Empty are those Who make their way Through this world Yet do not Trust in God.	#2, page 62, S6-98B
	S5-489E 恐ろしき　此現世にありながら　神に頼らでなど安かれや In an untitled set of poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 19, #5, page 1, December 25, 1950.

		S5-489E translation How can people / Rest in ease, / Not depending on God / In this frightening / Present world?

278	神無しと　誇りし人の行末は　我身のなしと語るに似たり
	The future of those who Boast that there is no God Is as if to say that They themselves Do not exist.	#3, page 63
	S6-98C; S5-489A神無しと　誇りし人の行末は　我身のなしと語るにやあらむ In an untitled set of poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 19, #1, page 1, December 25, 1950; previous translations, Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity, page 36B; Prayers and Gosanka, page 36B; Prayers and Poems, page 36B; Prayers and Poems, page 36B; Book of Gosanka, #141, page 36.

		S5-489A translation The future of those who / Boast that there is no God / Is to say that / They themselves / Do not exist.
		Gosanka—Poems of World Messianity translation Some people insist there is no God, / Not realizing they are denying / Their own future existence with / their words.
		Prayers and Gosanka translation There are some people / Who insist there is no God, / Not realizing / That with their words they deny / Their own future existence.
		Prayers and Poems translation There are some people / Who boast there is no God, / Not realizing their own words / Are now denying / Their own future existence.
		Book of Gosanka translation Destiny of one— / Who speaks out with blatancy / That there is no God— / Is very like tell all / That he himself exists not.

279	信仰の　無き人見る毎思ふかな　水母に似たる骨無し人と
	I think, every time I see someone who Has no faith, they are Like jellyfish, Have no skeleton.	#4, page 63, S6-98D
	S5-489D 信仰の　なき人を見れば思ふかな　クラゲに似たる骨無し人と In an untitled set of poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 19, #4, page 1, December 25, 1950.

		S5-489D translation When I see someone / Who has no faith, / I think that / Like jellyfish, / They have no skeleton.

280	束の間も　心安らにあるべきや　神に叛ける人とふ人は
	How can they Feel at ease even For a moment, Those who turn Their backs on God.	#5, page 63, S6-98E
	S5-490A束の間も　心安らにあるべきや　神に背ける人とふ人は In an untitled set of poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 19, #6, page 1, December 25, 1950.

281	槍衾　刃の垣にかくまるる　状にも似たり今の世の人
	Like a wall of blades Held on spears Waiting for attack is Like the condition of The world’s peoples today.	#6, page 63, S6-99A
	S5-490B槍衾　刃の垣にかくまるる　状にも似たり今の世の人. In an untitled set of poems in Chijôtengoku, Issue 19, #7, page 2, December 25, 1950.

282	夜の終り　来つるを知らで夢醒めぬ　人こそ世にも哀れなりける
	Pitiful in the world, The very persons who Do not know of the coming Of the end of night, Not awakening from their dreams.	#7, page 63, S6-99B
	S4-379C 夜の終り　来つるを知らで夢醒めぬ　人こそ世にも憐れなりける In a set of poems titled “The Great Judgment” in Gosanka Poems, #218, July 1, 1948; S4-231C 夜の終り　来つるを知らで夢醒めぬ　人こそ世にも憐れなりける In a section of poems titled “The Great Judgment (29)” in Gosanka Poems for the Kannon Society, #280, 1936.