“When I gathered flowers
For my girl
From the top of the plum tree
The lower branches
Drenched me with dew.”

XXII, p. 24
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred More Poems from the Japanese (1976)

Original

Ito ga tame Hozu e no ume wo Ta oru to wa Shizu e no tsuyu ni Nurenikeru kamo

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