Falling sick on a journey
by Matsuo Basho
Falling sick on a journey (1694) is Matsuo Basho's jisei (death poem), composed just days before he died in Osaka at age fifty. It is one of the most famous farewell poems in world literature. "My dream goes wandering / Over a field of dried grass."
Falling sick on a journey, My dream goes wandering Over a field of dried grass.