Kinkai wakashū 536

Love and Chrysanthemums.

はなにより人の心ははつ霜のおきあへず色のかはるなりけり

hana ni yori
hito no kokoro wa
hatsujimo no
oki’aezu iro no
kawaru narikeri
By another blossom,
That man’s heart—
Even though the first frost
Has yet to fall at all—in passion’s hue
Has been completely changed…

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