Composed in the Ninth Month, in the year I was twelve.
はなすすきまねくたもとはあまたあれど秋はとまらぬものにぞありける
| hanasusuki maneku tamoto wa amata aredo aki wa tomaranu mono ni zo arikeru | Of blossoming silver grass Beckoning sleeves Are there many, yet Autumn I cannot hold Here at all. |