der alte Hund
lauscht er den Liedern
der Regenwürmer?

The old dog
listening for the songs
of earthworms?

Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828)

(The Essential Haiku. Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa. Edited with Verse Translations by Robert Hass. HarperCollins 1994. S. 181)