When the courtiers had said they would await a cuckoo call and it had not done so by dawn.
待たずこそあるべかりければほとゝぎすねにねられでもあかしつるかな
| matazu koso arubekarikereba Fototogisu ne ni neraredemo akasituru kana |
Not to have waited, indeed, That would have been better! O, cuckoo, Try we might, but unsleeping lay and Now the daybreak’s come. |