To Whom Winter Comes Faster? (3) —The Third of 10 Chinese Poems on the Poor composed in the winter of 886 by Sugawara Michizane, the then Sanuki Province Governor—

To whom winter comes faster? To an aged widower winter comes faster He tosses and turns with his eyes open In a low hut, he sleeps alone With a sick, he is more in agony With whom should he moan over the poverty? With his motherless child He sheds tears all night