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Yōzei’in miko futari uta’awase 19

Left

なみだがはせけどとまらずあかつきのわかれはをしのうきねをぞする

namidagawa
sekedo tomarazu
akatsuki no
wakare wa oshi no
ukine o zo suru
The river of my tears
I dam, yet they cease not:
Dawn’s
Parting I regret, as a mandarin
Drifting in fitful sleep.

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Right

おきてゆくかたもしられずまどふかななみだもそでもめにさはりつつ

okiteyuku
kata mo shirarezu
madou kana
namida mo sode mo
me ni sawaritsutsu
Rising and departing,
Knowing not where to go,
I am lost!
My tears and my sleeves, too,
Ever sting my eyes…

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