hito mo yukaneba

are ni keru ka mo!

3 takashikasu = takashirasu.

9 araharemasamu.

24 The first naku = not-be, the second, cry, sing.

39 uchi-hahete, hafu, extend.

41-42 set forth men’s hopes. Nara would long endure—a sort of common form in lays of this character. 53 to end describe the impermanence of things and the desolation of the abandoned Capital.

For yasumishishi, kagirohino, tsuyushimono, mononofuno, haruhanano, muratorino, sasudakeno see List m. k. Most of these can only be rendered indirectly.

93, 94