Composed when some courtiers, drinking wine the Attendance Chamber, called him in and told him to compose a poem on ‘waiting for the cuckoo.’
ほととぎすこゑもきこえず山びこはほかになくねをこたへやはせぬ
| Fototogisu kowe mo kikoezu yamabiko Fa Foka ni naku ne wo kotaFe ya Fa senu |
The cuckoo’s Call is silent- But an echo Of a song sung elsewhere, Might not that return to us? |
Mitsune
躬恒