Kiri no tatéru wa.
[Methinks that Hikoboshi must be rowing his boat to meet his wife,—for a mist (as of oar-spray) is rising over the course of the Heavenly Stream.]
Kasumi tatsu
Ama-no-Kawara ni,
Kimi matsu to,—
Ikayō hodo ni
Mono-suso nurenu.
[While awaiting my lord on the misty shore of the River of Heaven, the skirts of my robe have somehow become wet.]
Amanogawa,