SKKS IX: 880

Sent to a woman on briefly leaving the capital and going far away.

契をくことこそさらになかりしかかねて思しわかれならねば

chigiri oku
koto koso sara ni
nakarishi ka
kanete omoishi
wakare naraneba
Vowing to meet once more
Is something
I have not done;
For I could not imagine
Such a parting…

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