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Break open the cherry tree:
where are the blossoms?
Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.”

Ikkyu

A Herd Of Deer Relaxing By Cherry Blossom Trees In Nara, Japan

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New York, Holy Week 1956.

Those who see you will stare at you,
and ponder over you:

“Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who would not let his prisoners go home?”

All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb;
but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like loathsome carrion,
clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the Pit,
like a corpse trampled underfoot.

You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have killed your people.

I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.

And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.

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