Nagaki yo o hitori ya nemu to kimi ga ieba suginishi hito no omooyuraku ni

長き夜をひとりや寝むと君が言へば
過ぎにし人の思ほゆらくに

Roma-ji: Nagaki yo o hitori ya nemu to kimi ga ieba suginishi hito no omooyuraku ni
English Translation: "Through the long night now
shall I sleep all alone?" when
you say this to me,
the one who has passed away
comes back to my mind as well.
Meaning: When you say, "Must I sleep alone through the long nights?" I too find myself thinking of the one who has passed away.
Commentary: Book Three Elegies 463

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "A poem composed by Ōtomo no Sukune Yakamochi in grief for his late concubine" — "A poem composed at once in reply by his younger brother, Ōtomo no Sukune Fumimochi"
The younger brother Fumimochi answers his elder brother Yakamochi's preceding poem on the spot. Hearing his brother ask whether he must sleep alone through the long nights, he too cannot help thinking of the one who died, standing close to his brother's grief. He responds by taking up "the long nights," "alone," and "sleep" directly from the preceding poem.
The poet, Ōtomo no Fumimochi, was a son of Ōtomo no Tabito and younger brother of Yakamochi. He died young in Tenpyō 18 (746).

First line "Through the long night now" takes up the last line of the preceding poem.
Second line "shall I sleep all alone": ya is interrogative, taking up the preceding poem's fourth and fifth lines.
Third line "you say this to me" refers to his elder brother.
Fourth line "the one who has passed away": sugu means to die.
Fifth line "comes back to my mind as well": omooyuraku is the nominal form of omooyu, and ni exclamatory.
Author: Ōtomo no Fumimochi
Source: Manyoshu
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