Ariwara no Narihira
I have always known
That at last I would
Take this road, but yesterday
I did not know that ot would be today.

(from "One Hundred Poems from the Japanese)

transl. by Kenneth Rexroth

Tsui ni yuku
Michi to wa kanete
Kikishi kado
Kinō kyō to wa
Omowazarishi wo