Cogon grass and the Same

Round Fifteen

Left

うき人を驚かすべき方ぞなきうらやましきは荻の上風

ukibito o odorokasubeki kata zo naki urayamashiki wa ogi no uwakaze

That cruel girl: To make her notice me I have no way at all! How I envy The wind blowing o’er the cogon grass!

Lecturer Kakuga
29

Right

荻原やよかぜぞつらき音せずはねてこそ人を夢にみましか

ogiwara ya yokaze zo tsuraki oto sezu wa nete koso hito o yume ni mimashika

O, plain of cogon grass, How unkind is the wind tonight! For without your sound, then Indeed, I would sleep that she I would glimpse within my dreams…

The Head
30

The conception of love sounds superior at present in envying the ‘wind blowing o’er the cogon grass’ than it does in the ‘unkind is the wind tonight’.