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Yōzei’in miko futari uta’awase 14

Left

はるのよのあかぬわかれのあかつきはちへのにしきをたつにざりける

haru no yo no
akanu wakare no
akatsuki wa
chie no nishiki o
tatsu ni zarikeru
After a spring night,
Unsatisfied, parting at
The dawn,
Sewn a thousandfold, the brocade
Through which I go!

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Right

あけぬてふこゑもなみだももろともにうちいづるからにそでぞぬれける

akenu chō
koe mo namida mo
morotomo ni
uchi’izuru kara ni
sode zo nurekeru
‘Tis dawn, say
Birdsongs and tears
Both,
Bursting out, so
My sleeves are soaked!

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