_Going to see the beloved, even the water of rice-fields_[5]
_Ever becomes, as I drink, nectar of gods[6] to the taste._
[Footnote 5: In the original _dorota;_ literally "mud rice-fields,"--
meaning rice-fields during the time of flushing, before the grain has
fairly grown up. The whole verse reads:--
Horeté kayoyeba
Dorota no midzu mo
Noméba kanro no
Aji ga suru.
]
[Footnote 6: _Kanro,_ a Buddhist word, properly written with two
Chinese characters signifying "sweet dew." The real meaning is
_amrita,_ the drink of the gods.]