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Portland's Japanese Garden
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Aoyama Cemetary
Not the snows of Fuji
Nor the auspicious plume
Of the white heron
Nor the sea-foam of Atami
Is so white
As the cherries of Aoyama:
Letting fall
The freshness of evanescence
On the carved stones of the dead.
John M. Steadman
20th Century
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