Recognizing Japanese letters

 I began my interest in Japanese with trying to look up the original haiku in Japanese after reading English translations. Looking back at the journey so far, when I searched for a translation, I understood that this image had the original that I am looking for. But how do we find the letters. Using google translation and midway letters that I could read, I had to adjust the Japanese text back and forth to finally get:

"誕生と死を見つめる 蓮はすでに 花を 開いた

Tanjō to shi o mitsumeru hasu wa sudeni hana o aita " - Soseki