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Chiyo-Jo's Haiku

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first wild geese--hearing all lines at once, too good


At the end of autumn on a clear day, you can see the crying wild geese flying in a line. One day while playing tag and hiding in a shade of piled straw, young Chiyo-jo noticed the wild geese. So she stopped playing her game to listen to the geese crying all at once and felt it was too wonderful.
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