On Miyoshino’s fields,
the trusting wild geese too,
all in earnest,
cry as they draw near
toward your side.

Meaning

On the fields of Miyoshino, even the trusting wild geese, in all earnestness, cry as they draw near toward your side; so too does my daughter turn her heart toward you.

Commentary

Episode Ten: "The trusting wild geese"

A man traveled aimlessly as far as Musashi Province and sought to marry a young woman who lived there. The girl’s father intended to give her to another man, but her mother, being of Fujiwara lineage, was particular about rank.
This poem was composed by the mother in reply to the man’s proposal.

The "Miyoshino" that forms the setting of this episode is said to be around present-day Miyoshino in Sakado Town, Iruma District, Saitama Prefecture, though there is also a view that it refers to Kawagoe City.

Source

Ise Monogatari

Other

A mountain that knows no season— Mount Fuji’s peak: what time does it think it is, that like a fawn’s dappled back snow falls in scattered white?
If you truly bear the name, come, let me ask you, O capital bird: does the one I think upon still live, or not?
They cry that they draw near toward my side—those trusting geese of Miyoshino; how could I ever forget them?
Forget me not, though for a time I seem lost in the clouds, until, like the moon that crosses the sky, we meet again.

On Miyoshino’s fields, the trusting wild geese too, all in earnest, cry as they draw near toward your side.

On Miyoshino’s fields,
the trusting wild geese too,
all in earnest,
cry as they draw near
toward your side.