間 Ma

Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura

Oh! how its young ones must be waiting,— For all too high ascends the lark!

Sugiyama Sanpū

ko ya matan · amari hibari no · taka-agari

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 338; lines re-broken

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