Living near the fields,
each morning, morning by morning,
the bush warbler’s cry
as it sings can be heard—
so I listen, dawn by dawn.
- Meaning
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Living near the fields, I hear the bush warbler’s cry each morning, morning by morning.
- Commentary
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Spring Songs, Book One
Living by the fields, far from the village, the poet sings with heartfelt joy of hearing, morning after morning, the bush warbler’s cry that announces the long-awaited coming of spring.
- Author
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Unknown Poet
- Source
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Kokin Wakashu
- Other
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If from the valley
no voice of the bush warbler
were to come forth,
who then would ever know
that spring has come at all?
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Though spring has come,
in the mountain village where
even flowers give no scent,
with a weary-sounding cry
the bush warbler sings.
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Kasuga Field—
today, burn it not, I pray;
the young spring grass—
my wife, too, is hidden,
and I, too, am hidden.
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In the deep mountains,
even the snow on pine trees
has not yet melted;
in the Capital, on the fields,
young greens are gathered.