Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura
Oh! how its young ones must be waiting,— For all too high ascends the lark!
子や待ん 餘り雲雀の 高あがり
ko ya matan · amari hibari no · taka-agari
Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 338; lines re-broken