Left.
さりともと待し月日も過ぬればこや絶え果つる始め成らん
| saritomo to machishi tsukihi mo suginureba ko ya taehatsuru hajimenaruran |
If it should be so, That the days and months I’ve waited Should come to pass, Then, today, does our final parting Start, it seems. |
751
Right.
いかにこはうとく成行く君ならん絶ゆべき程の契をやせし
| ika ni ko wa utokunariyuku kimi naran tayubeki hodo no chigiri o ya seshi |
How is it that So far away Are you? That we should part – Have we made such a vow? |
The Provisional Master of the Empress Household Office
752
Both Right and Left state, we find nothing worth indicating in the other’s poem.
In judgement: the conception and diction of both poems is equivalent. They should tie.