<Japanese>
それとなく 紅き花みな 友にゆづり そむきて泣きて 忘れ草つむ
Soreto naku/ Akaki hana mina/ Tomo ni Yuzuri/ Somuki te naki te/ Wasure gusa tsumu
<English>
Indirectly,
I gave all red flowers
To my friend.
I turned up my back on them,
Weeped and picked up forgetting grass
*”my friend” is Yosano Akiko
*forgetting grass in Japanese is Hemerocallis fulva var