The wild-geese in the firmament,— These are Dutch letters sideways stretching.

Nishiyama Sōin

阿蘭陀の　文字か横たふ　天つ雁

Oranda no · moji ka yokotau · amatsu kari

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 316; lines re-broken