With A Song He Tried To Keep Poem by Ki no Tsurayuki

With A Song He Tried To Keep

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With a song he tried to keep
The blossoms, yet now they're gone,
So the warbler too,
At the last, in melancholy
Has sunk, it seems.

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Fabrizio Frosini 14 August 2016

waka composed in the third month, after not hearing the song of a bush warbler for a long time

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Fabrizio Frosini 14 August 2016

なきとむる花しなければうぐひすもはては物うくなりぬべらなり nakitomuru Fana si nakereba uguFisu mo Fate Fa mono’uku narinuberanari With a song he tried to keep The blossoms, yet now they’re gone, So the warbler too, At the last, in melancholy Has sunk, it seems. Ki no Tsurayuki, 紀貫之 Kokinshū - KKS II: 128

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