All the nights and days passed away
and a strange darkness
began to envelop my soul.
Is this sleep? Is it the end?
It seems to me
like a very long rest.
總ての夜と日が逝（ゆ）いた
不思議な闇が
私の魂（たま）を包み初めた。
眠りか？ 最終（おはり）か？
そして私には
其れが永い休息（やすみ）とも思はれる。
NOTES:
Imai Hakuyou (1889-1917) was a Japanese free verse poet from Sendai in Kagoshima prefecture. Before he could publish a single volume of poetry, he drowned at a young age while swimming with a friend in Chiba.
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