無題（明治二十三年八月末）

江山容不俗懷塵
君是功名場裏人
憐殺病軀多客氣
漫將翰墨論詩神

Untitled (Late August 1890)

Do the rivers and mountains accept the worldliness of men?
You are a man in the arena of honor and ambition.
I pity your illness, your abundance of youthful ardor,
Your reckless use of the writing brush to discourse upon the muses.