Oh! moon, if born again, I’d be A pine-tree on a mountain peak.

Ōshima Ryōta

名月や 生れかはらば 峰の松

meigetsu ya · umare kawaraba · mine no matsu

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 354; lines re-broken