the butterflies --!]

Rakkwa eda ni
Kaeru to mireba --
Kocho kana!



[When I saw the fallen flower return to the branch -- lo! it was only a
butterfly! [7]]

Chiru-hana ni --
Karusa arasou
Kocho kana!



[How the butterfly strives to compete in lightness with the falling
flowers! [8]]

Chocho ya!
Onna no michi no
Ato ya saki!



[See that butterfly on the woman's path,-- now fluttering behind her, now
before!]

Chocho ya!