Here in the deep hills,
where the hail comes down, morning
and evening alike,
the sky that I look upon
goes on darkening over

Meaning

Here in the deep hills where the hail comes down, morning and evening alike, the sky I look on goes on darkening.

Commentary

Part Three: Agemaki

　Naka no Kimi's reply. Against the winter rain of the capital she sets hail and deep hills, and so marks the distance between them without pressing it. The year closed while she went on waiting, and Oigimi's illness grew worse.

　Arare, hail, gives a harsher mountain weather than his shigure. Kakikurasu is both the sky darkening and the eyes darkening with tears. She takes his "the same sky" and answers that hers is always clouded, so that the gap between capital and Uji is told through a difference of weather.

Author

Murasaki Shikibu

Source

Genji Monogatari

Other

It is not that I think to lie down with you as with the young grasses, and yet I have the feeling of something knotted within
It is the same sky that the two of us look on, and yet, why is it, this winter rain that adds to not knowing how you may be
The plovers at the water's edge, where the frost bites cold, cannot bear it, and the sound of their crying is sad in the growing light
The plover that shakes the frost of daybreak from its wings and cries aloud— does it know, then, what is in the heart of one who is grieving

Here in the deep hills, where the hail comes down, morning and evening alike, the sky that I look upon goes on darkening over

Here in the deep hills,
where the hail comes down, morning
and evening alike,
the sky that I look upon
goes on darkening over