\  473.  We  will  end  up  by  a  longer  poem  of  a  form  called
Setidai-hiishi,  which,  though  containing  two  or  three
Book  Language  forms,  is  otherwise  easy.  It  is  put  into
*the  mouth  of  one  who  was  exiled  to  a  small  island  beyond
the  storm}-  reach  of  sea  called  the  Genkai-nada,  to  the
north-west  of  Kyushu  : —

(7)  Tori  mo  kosanai  (

(7)  Genkai-nada  wo


(8)   Vararcru  kono  vii  wa*
(  5 )       lion  anedo ,  —
(7)  Ato  ni  nokorishi"^  ^

(5)  Tsuma  ya  ko  wa,
(7)  Do  sliitv  isTiki-hi  ivo
(5)        Okuniyara^P


I  care  not  for  myself,  who  am
sent  across  the  Genkai  Sea
over  which  even  the  birds  do
not  pass.  But  the  wife  and
children  who  have  remained
behind, — how  mav  thev  be
spending  the  months  and  days?


2.  It  is  to  be  understood  that,  though  no  longer  enamoured  of  his
choice,  the  lover  had  remained  faithful  to  her  through  a  feeling  of
honour, — a  feeling  which  was  rewarded  by  the  eventual  growth  of
solid  mutual  aflfection.— 3.  In  the  little  book  from  which  this  verse  is
taken,  there  is,  opposite  the  lines,  a  picture  of  a  girl  weeping  and
stretching  out  imploring  hands  to  a  man  who  is  turning  his  back  on
her.— 4.  Lit.  "  positively  break  not !  "  kataku  being  equivalent  to
kess/nte. — 5.  Equivalent  to  sJiikaia  ga  iiai. — 6.  This  line  has  eight
syllables  instead  of  seven,  by  a  poetical  license. — 7.  Nokorishi  is  Class-
ical  for  nokotta. — 8.  Yara  comes  from  Classical  ya  araii,  which  is
equivalent  to  the  Colloquial  de  aro  ka  ?


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