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ひとしれずねざめのこひはよぶこどりよぶかきこゑはきくひともなし
hito shirezu nezame no koi wa yobukodori yobukaki koe wa kiku hito mo nashi | Unknown to all I awake and yearn: A songbird Late at night sings With no one listening at all. |
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おもひやるこころしゆかばさよふけておきゐてこふとつぐべきものを
omoiyaru kokoro shi yukaba sayo fukete oki’ite kou to tsugubeki mono o | If, steadfast, My heart but was, then As brief night wore on I’d arise and my love Be able to announce, but… |
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Songbirds.
あをによしならのやまなるよぶこ鳥いたくななきそ君もこなくに
aoni yoshi nara no yama naru yobukodori itaku na naki so kimi mo konaku ni | In the blue-black clay of The Nara Mountains, O, songbird, Do not cry so sadly! For then she will not come… |
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むさしのにいろやかよへるふぢのはなわかむらさきにそめてみゆらむ
musashino ni iro ya kayoeru fuji no hana wakamurasaki ni somete miyuramu | On Musashi Plain Are their colours blending? The wisteria blossom has The gromwell with violet Dyed, it seems… |
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Right
あかずしてすぎゆくはるをよぶこどりよびかへしつときてもつげなむ
akazushite sugiyuku haru o yobukodori yobikaeshitsu to kite mo tsugenamu | Unsated by The passage of spring, The songbird Has called it back—that Is what I would have him announce! |
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夏草も夜の間は露にいこふらむ常にこがるる我ぞかなしき
natsukusa mo yo no ma wa tsuyu ni ikouramu tsune ni kogaruru ware zo kanashiki | Upon the summer grasses Throughout the night do dewdrops Seem to rest, and Ever smouldering, I feel sad, indeed! |
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Right
ながめつつ人まつをりによぶこ鳥いづかたへとか立ちかへりなく
nagametsutsu hito matsu ori ni yobukodori izukata e to ka tachikaerinaku | Always I gaze out While waiting for him; O, songbird! Whither are you bound? Trilling back and forth… |
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思ふ事千々にや繁き呼子鳥信太の杜の方に鳴くなり
omoFu koto
tidi ni ya sigeki
yobukodori
sinoda no mori no
kata ni nakunari |
Are my thoughts
As profuse as the thousand upon thousands of
Cuckoos
Toward Shinoda’s sacred grove
A’calling? |
Ōe no Masafusa
'Simply moving and elegant'