SKKS IV: 325

In the conception of Tanabata.

わくらばにあまの河なみよるながらあくるそらにはまかせずもがな

wakuraba ni
ama no gawa nami
yoru nagara
akuru sora ni wa
makasezu mo gana
How rarely does
The River of Heaven
Wash them together – ’tis night, yet
The lightening sky:
I would that it would not please itself.

Nyogo Kishi Joō (929-985)

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