Athwart the surface of the stream There lieth stretched the cuckoo’s voice.

Matsuo Bashō

ほととぎす 声や横たふ 水の上

hototogisu · koe ya yokotau · mizu no ue

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 324; lines re-broken