Granted this dewdrop world is but A dewdrop world,— this granted, yet.......

Kobayashi Issa

露の世は　つゆの世ながら　さりながら

tsuyu no yo wa · tsuyu no yo nagara · sari nagara

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 298; lines re-broken