Capitolo 27
So then this ghost, Tokkei,
Raced in the sun, wine bought of one hundred dealers,
And alone at the end of day
Entered the room of darkening, and it faced the portrait,
And it the calm eyes
Sparkling and young in the twilight, and it held the wine-cup,
And it knelt, and it didn't rise,
Is it said, to tall voice, 'Here-san, will he/she drink this wine?'
The motto to tall voice three times.
And to the third one the blue and weak smoke of incense
Colors of rose to the walls in a cloud,
And the lips weakly stirred, and the eyes, and the calm hands mixed;
And suddenly, with a sigh,
The calm lady was down slowly of the portrait,
And it was standing, while worlds passed,
And it lifted his/her young white hands and drunk the cup of wine;
And the poet trembled, and says,
'Here-san, will it be forever?'--'Yes, I will be.'--
'But thing when I am dead?'
'When you are dead Your spirit it will find my spirit,
And then we will die anybody more.'
Music came down on them, and spring returning,
They remembered first worlds,
And years went on the earth, and on the sea,
And persons in love were born and they spoke and it died,
But forever in light of the sun it went these two immortal,
Tokkei and the calm bride. . .
III. FREQUENTED ROOMS
The page of lamplit is turned, the forgotten dream;
The music changes tone, You alarm clock, memoirs
You Husk deep you lived in expectancy before,--deep worlds
Of leaf on falling leaf, music on music,
Rain and the pain and wind and dust and laughter.
Helen was late and Miriam came too soon.
Joseph was dead, his/her wife and children starving.
Elaine got married him and soon to have a child.
You dreamed the last night of violinist-crab with violins;
They played a melody of humming and you smiled.
To-tomorrow--that that? And thing of yesterday?
Through unfathomable labyrinths of dream You the passage,
Through a lot of doors in the door of the one of everybody.
Soon as you/he/she has opened us we will feel a music:
Or he/she sees a skeletal fall. . .
We walk with you. Where is it that you conduct us?
We climb the steps enveloped under of tall lanterns.