Smi 93 



Simmers all the air with sibilation of se'mi, 



Ceaseless, wearying sense, a sound of perpetual boiling. 



Other poets complain especially of the multi- 

 tude of the noise-makers and the ubiquity of the 

 noise : 



Aritake* no 

 Ki ni hibiki-keri 

 Se'mi no koe". 

 How many soever the trees, in each rings the voice of 



the semi. 



Matsubara wo 

 Ichi ri wa kitari, 

 Se'mi no koe". 



SENGA. 



Alone I walked for miles into the wood of pine-trees : 

 Always the one same se'mi shrilled its call in my ears. 



Occasionally the subject is treated with comic 

 exaggeration : 



Natte" iru 

 Ki yori mo futoshi 



Se'mi no koe". 



The voice of the se'mi is bigger [thicker] than the tree on 

 which it sings. 



Sugi takashi 

 Sare'domo se'mi no 



Amaru kog ! 



High though the cedar be, the voice of the se'mi is in- 

 comparably higher I 



