SHITE Tread out the dance.
CHORUS
Tread out the dance and bring music.
This dance is for Nishikigi.
SHITE
This dance is for the evening plays,
And for the weaving.
CHORUS
For the tokens between lover and lover:
It is a reflecting in the wine-cup.
CHORUS
Ari-aki,
The dawn!
Come, we are out of place;
Let us go ere the light comes.
(to the Waki)
We ask you, do not awake,
We all will wither away,
The wands and this cloth of a dream.
Now you will come out of sleep,
You tread the border and nothing
Awaits you: no, all this will wither away.
There is nothing here but this cave in the field's midst.
To-day's wind moves in the pines;
A wild place, unlit, and unfilled.