[One of] three poems composed at a banquet on the 3rd day of the Third Month, with an imperial envoy sent to inspect the border guards and messengers from the Ministry of War in attendance.
朝な朝な上がる雲雀になりてしか都に行きて早帰り来む
asana asana agaru pibari ni naritesika miyako ni yukite paya kaperikon |
Every single morning Soars the skylark – If only I were she, then To the capital I’d go, and Swiftly return home! |
Abe no Samimaro
安倍沙美麻呂