My reply (probably sent around the end of the Ninth Month):
白雲のたなびくかたはこゆれどもわかれの空に惑ふころかな
| sirakumo no tanabiku kata Fa koyuredomo wakare no sora ni madoFu koro kana |
Where white clouds Stream, I have Passed by, yet Having parted, beneath such skies Am I lost, indeed. |