Toward where you are
I shall sit and gaze—
O Mount Ikoma,
let not the clouds conceal you,
though even if rain should fall.

Meaning

I shall sit gazing toward where you are; O Mount Ikoma, let not the clouds conceal you, even if rain should fall.

Commentary

Episode Twenty-Three: "By the well-curb"

The children who had once played together by the shared well at last married when they came of age.
But after the wife’s parents died and their life grew poor, the man, weary of such wretched living, took up with another woman in Takayasu of Kawachi and began to visit her.
Though he had taken a new woman, the wife did not reproach him and saw him off without complaint. After he heard her poem, "When the wind blows, white waves rise offshore—so on Tatsuta Mountain, in the midnight hours, are you crossing it alone?" he came to cherish her all the more. As he visited the woman in Takayasu several times, her former reserve faded and she grew wearisome to him, and he ceased to go to her.

This poem was composed by the woman of Takayasu in Kawachi as she longed and called for the man.

Source

Ise Monogatari

Other

Toward where you are I shall sit and gaze— O Mount Ikoma, let not the clouds conceal you, though even if rain should fall.

Toward where you are
I shall sit and gaze—
O Mount Ikoma,
let not the clouds conceal you,
though even if rain should fall.