Tears
'Ah tears!...Unbidden tears! Familiar friends since childhood s lonely years, Long separated we, Why do ye come again to dwell with me? At midnight, dawn, midday Ye come; nor wait your coming nor delay; Nay fearless, zvith what scorn Ye picture China by my brothers torn. Your scorn I must accept, But I’m no cozvard; pray heed ere more ye’ve wept; I love Japan so fair, And China too; this war I cannot bear. “Is there no other way?” Thus do I search my spirit all the day Nor ever reach a goal; I live, but only as a phantom soul. Like Christ who bore our sins upon the Cross, I, too, must bear my country’s sins and dross; Land of my love! Thy sins are grievous to be borne, My head hangs lozv upon my form forlorn. Ah tears! Unbidden tears! Long separated we, Alas! has come another day When ye must dwell with me. —Toyohiko Kagawa, in the Christian Century.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)
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163Tears Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)
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