Composed when seeing women picking new shoots by a marsh.
賤の女がゑぐつむ澤の薄ごほりいつまでふべきわが身なるらん
| sidu no me ga wegu tumu saFa no usugoFori itu made Fubeki wa ga mi naruran |
The peasant girls Pick sedge by the marsh Whose paper-ice Will vanish e’er long: As, perhaps, will I. |
Minamoto no Toshiyori
源俊頼