Kei’un Hyakushu 78

Awaiting love.

かく斗待たるゝ暮をいつはりになれてたのまぬ身とや知らん

kaku bakari
mataruru kure o
itsuwari ni
narete tanomanu
mi to ya shiruran

That so
Eagerly I have awaited this eve,
To his lies
Accustomed, that faithless
Man, I wonder, does he know?

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