for play

遊びをせんとや生まれけむ　

戯けれせんとや生まれけん　

遊ぶ子供の声きけば　

我が身さえこそ動がれる

For sport and play / I think that we are born; 

 For jesting and laughter / I doubt not we are born. 

 For when I hear / The voice of children at their play, 

 My limbs, even my / Stiff limbs, are stirred. 

(from The Ryójin Hishó, transl. by Arthur D. Waley)