bIQ'a' wIghoSchugh ...

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In a message dated 7/19/2005 5:23:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> bIQ'a' wIghoSchugh bIQDaq pum porgh.
> HuD wIghoSchugh yotlhDaq pum porgh.
> wa' Doch neH vIneH.  ta'vaD jIHegh vIneH.
> not vIleghqa'.
> 
> mu'tlheghmeyvam Sov'a' vay'?  mughmeH mu'mey nIv Sov'a' vay'?
> 
> lay'tel SIvten
> 

"Umi Yukaba" (roughly, "Going Out to Sea") was the anthem of the Imperial 
Japanese Navy during World War II. A slow, mournful tune, its lyrics were taken 
from a poem written by Otomo no Yakamochi way back in AD 749 - "the poem 
celebrating the imperial edict on the discovery of gold in Michinoku province." The 
poem is from the Manyoshu, an anthology containing the oldest known poems in 
the Japanese language. The song took on specially meaning to the kamikaze 
pilots. When a kamikaze squadron took off, the men left behind would sing "Umi 
Yukaba" as each plane departed, never to return. 

lay'tel SIvten