Mutsumashi ya! --
Umare-kawareba
Nobe no cho. [10]



[If (in our next existence) we be born into the state of butterflies upon
the moor, then perchance we may be happy together!]

Nadeshiko ni
Chocho shiroshi --
Tare no kon? [11]



[On the pink-flower there is a white butterfly: whose spirit, I wonder?]

Ichi-nichi no
Tsuma to miekeri --
Cho futatsu.



[The one-day wife has at last appeared -- a pair of butterflies!]

Kite wa mau,
Futari shidzuka no
Kocho kana!