[the snow is melting]
Translated by Robert Hass
The snow is melting
and the village is flooded
with children.
[the snow is melting] by Issa, from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Copyright 1994 by Robert Hass. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Source:
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho Buson and Issa
(The Ecco Press, 1994)