Written on seeing a lady with whom I had been conversing in secret on her way to attend at the Palace on a brightly moonlit night.
出づと入ると天つ空なる心地してもの思はする秋の夜の月
| idu to iru to ama tu sora naru kokoti site mono’omoFasuru aki no yo no tuki |
Rising and setting— The emptiness of the heavens Do I feel, and Am so sunk in gloom by The moon, upon an Autumn night. |