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The light of a candle
by Yosa Buson translated by Yuki Sawa and Edith Marcombe Shiffert

The light of a candle is transferred to another candle— spring twilight.

From Haiku Master Buson by Yosa Buson. Copyright © 2007 by Yosa Buson, translated by Edith Shiffert. Reprinted by permission of White Pine Press.