Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura
No friends, oh! let me meet no friends When I am gazing at the flowers!
知人に あはじあはじと 花見かな
shiru hito ni · awaji awaji to · hanami kana
Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 330; lines re-broken