Flowers have no close designs to lure butterflies to stay
Nor butterflies any ambition to take advantage of flowers
But butterflies do not dally far behind when flowers blow
And flowers bloom all at once as soon as butterflies come
I am a mere stranger to others about me, if not to myself
Conversely, they are strangers to me as much as I to them
Yet by a set of secret laws they and I are firmly chained
-Ryokan
Nor butterflies any ambition to take advantage of flowers
But butterflies do not dally far behind when flowers blow
And flowers bloom all at once as soon as butterflies come
I am a mere stranger to others about me, if not to myself
Conversely, they are strangers to me as much as I to them
Yet by a set of secret laws they and I are firmly chained
-Ryokan
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