Yōzei’in miko futari uta’awase 11

Partings at Dawn

Left

ひとしれぬわがみとおもへばあかつきのとりとともにやなきてかへらん

hito shirenu
wa ga mi to omoeba
akatsuki no
tori to tomo ni ya
nakite kaeran
No one knew
Of my sorry state, I thought, so
With the dawn
Birds’ chorus should I,
Sobbing, make my way home?

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Right

ひとしれずあかでわかるるあかつきにうちなきそふるをしのこゑかな

hito shirezu
akade wakaruru
akatsuki ni
uchinaki souru
oshi no koe kana
No one knows
How unsatisfied I am to part
With the dawn
Sobs overlaying
The cries of the mandarin ducks!

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