Waga matsuru kami ni wa arazu masurao ni tsukitaru kami zo yoku matsurubeshi

我が祭る神にはあらず大夫に
憑きたる神ぞよく祭るべし

Roma-ji: Waga matsuru kami ni wa arazu masurao ni tsukitaru kami zo yoku matsurubeshi
English Translation: Not a god is it
that I myself worship there;
it is the god, my lord,
that has taken hold of you—
worship it with all due care!
Meaning: That is no god I worship—it is the god that possesses you, my fine gentleman. Tend to its worship well!
Commentary: Book Three Allegorical Poems 406

Headnote: "A further poem in reply by the young woman"
This poem belongs to the section of Allegorical Poems in Book Three. The young woman answers Akamaro's renewed courtship once more. The god of the shrine you resent is not one I worship, she says, but the god that possesses you—so worship it well; in other words, take good care of your wife—a witty and decisive refusal. The three-poem exchange closes with her deft retort. The author is recorded only as "a young woman," and her name has not come down.
The exchange between Saeki no Akamaro and a young woman is a sequence in which a married man's courtship and the woman's refusal are expressed through the shrine and the millet of Kasuga.

First line "that I myself worship there" means the god she worships.
Second line "Not a god is it" breaks the sentence. Answering "how I hate that shrine," she says the god has nothing to do with her.
Third line "my lord": masurao is a fine gentleman, here Akamaro.
Fourth line "that has taken hold of you": tsuku means to possess, and zo is emphatic. The god stands for Akamaro's wife.
Fifth line "worship it with all due care": beshi expresses obligation and command.
Source: Manyoshu
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