Ame ni mo Makezu

This is a piece of uplifting poetry for young boys that shows why young boys like poetry so much. (Actually, I don't know what young boys think of it, but Japanese a few years older than me all memorized it in school, and like it because they still remember it mostly.) It crystallizes Miyazawa's teachings and example of patience with the trials of nature and jibes of men, simple living, and assistance to those in need. The poem is reproduced below in Japanese, katakana and all, and sort of translated below that.

If what follows looks like gibberish, it is possible that either (a) your browser is set for Japanese encoding other than EUC, (b) your browser doesn't read Japanese at all, (c) you don't read Japanese, or (d) it is gibberish. Honest, to me it looks just like the text in my Kodansha Bluebird series.