Left (Win).
行末はあひ見て後や知らるべき今日はその日と契るばかりぞ
| yukusue wa aimite nochi ya shirarubeki kyō wa sono hi to chigiru bakari zo |
What will become of us? Upon our meeting Will we know it? Today is that day and Our only promise! |
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Right.
待てと言ひしその言の葉にかゝりつゝ露の命も消ぬとを知れ
| mate to iishi sono koto no ha ni kakaritsutsu tsuyu no inochi mo kienu to wo shire |
‘Just wait!’ you said, and To those words I am clinging, but A dewdrop life Can vanish – you should know! |
The Provisional Master of the Empress’ Household Office.
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The Right have nothing particular to say about the Left’s poem. The Left simply say that the Right’s poem contains sentiments heard many times before [tsune ni kikinaretaru yoshi].
Shunzei’s judgement: The Left’s poem is nothing remarkable, but I feel it is a little gentler [ima sukoshi otonashikuhaberu]. I must make it the winner.