Ise Shū 16

What’s more, though she did not think very much of it, there was a man who loved her deeply and approached and spoke to her. He sent her letters, and when she made no reply, composed:

山がつはいへどもかゐもなかりけり山びこそらに我こたへせよ

yamagatu Fa
iFedomo kawi mo
nakarikeri
yamabiko sora ni
waga kotaFe seyo
A mountain woodsman
I may be, yet I have no way
Through the passes;
Even in an echo
Respond to me!

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