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　 　 何か言ふ　乞食の声を後にして　縁日の灯に吾まぎれける
S5-427B-C
[SS537G]		 　

Leaving behind
The beggar who is babbling
About something, I disappear
Into the lights lit for
Temple Festival Day.

 Titled "Temple Festival Day" in Landscapes, page 274, February 23, 1949; S3-324B-C [SS249G] variant 何かいう　乞食の声を後して　縁日の灯に吾まぎれけり [variant same translation] in a set of poems titled "Temple Festival Day" in "Twenty-third Poetry Reading 'Temple Festival Day'" in Pine Breeze, Volume 3, Number 22, internal dating, September 1934.