Yo wa fuké ni tsutsu,
Awanu Hikoboshi!
[Is it that the current of the River of Heaven (has become too) rapid? The jet-black night[24] advances—and Hikoboshi has not come!]
Watashi-mori,
Funé haya watasé;—
Hito-tosé ni
Futatabi kayō
Kimi naranaku ni!
[Oh, ferryman, make speed across the stream!—my lord is not one who can come and go twice in a year!]
Aki kazé no