WAKI
I will go to that love-cave,
It will be a tale to take back to my village.
Will you show me my way there?
SHITE So be it, I will teach you the path.
TSURE Tell him to come over this way.
BOTH
Here are the pair of them
Going along before the traveller.
CHORUS
We have spent the whole day until dusk
Pushing aside the grass
From the over-grown way at Kefu,
And we are not yet come to the cave.
O you there, cutting grass on the hill,
Please set your mind on this matter.
'You'd be asking where the dew is
'While the frost's lying here on the road.
'Who'd tell you that now?'
Very well then don't tell us,
But be sure we will come to the cave.
SHITE
There's a cold feel in the autumn.
Night comes....