Sanekata Shū 269

When I was a middle captain, and went as messenger to the Lesser Festival, a woman whom I hand just begun to see, said:

音に聞くこやすべらぎの御垣守

oto ni kiku
ko ya suberagi no
mikakimori
Word has come that
Here stands His Majesty’s
Guardsman

I replied:

いとしも戀に夜は燃えねど

itosi mo koFi ni
yoru Fa moenedo
Yet not altogether by fires
Of nightly passion scorched!

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