When I had begun speaking to the Junior Assistant Handmaid, and our relationship was a great secret.
忍び音も苦しきものをほととぎすいざ卯の花のかげにかくれむ
| sinobine mo kurusiki mono wo Fototogisu iza u no Fana no kage ni kakuremu |
A whispered secret night together Is wretched, indeed, so Cuckoo, Let us, in the summer snow blooms’ Shade, find shelter. |