On the first day of snowfall, when she had much on her mind:
ふればかくうさのみまさる世をしらであれたる庭につもるはつ雪
| fureba kaku usa nomi masaru yo o shirade aretaru niwa ni tsumoru hatsuyuki |
As I age, you fall, the Excess of grief Within this world unknown to you, and Upon the my desolate garden, Drifting, o, first snowflakes. |
Murasaki Shikibu
紫式部