Sent to a lady with whom he had once been intimate, after some years had passed.
いにしへのしづのをだまき繰りかへし昔を今になすよしもがな
| inishie no shizu no odamaki kurikaeshi mukashi o ima ni nasu yoshi mogana | In times long gone Thread upon a bobbin was Wound back— Just so, the present into the past I wish we could make! |
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It seems, though, that the lady thought nothing of it.
When the parents of a woman with whom he had been conversing secretly heard about it and forbade it.
かずならばかからましやは世中にいとかなしきはしづのをだまき
| kazu naraba kakaramashi ya yo no naka ni ito kanashiki wa shizu no odamaki | If I were as other folk, then I would not be treated so! In this mundane world A thread of sorrow winds on The bobbin of my sorry lot! |
Consultant [Ono no] Takamura
