Kumo no ue ni nakitsuru kari no samuki nae hagi no shitaba wa momichinuru kamo

雲の上に鳴きつる雁の寒きなへ
萩の下葉はもみちぬるかも

Roma-ji: Kumo no ue ni nakitsuru kari no samuki nae hagi no shitaba wa momichinuru kamo
English Translation: Above the clouds high
the wild geese cried as they flew,
and just as they sounded cold,
the lower leaves of the clover
have taken on autumn's hue
Meaning: Just as the geese that cried above the clouds sounded cold, the lower leaves of the bush clover have turned to autumn color.
Commentary: Book Eight Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 1575

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Seven poems from a banquet at the house of the Minister of the Right, Tachibana"
Just as the cry of the geese above the clouds sounded cold, the lower leaves of the bush clover turned color. Catching at once the chill of the geese's voices and the coloring of the clover's leaves, the poet senses the deepening of autumn. According to the note, it is from the banquet at the house of the Minister of the Right, Tachibana no Moroe, on the twentieth day of the eighth month of Tenpyō 10 (738).
The note says only "the above two poems," the author's name being missing, so the author is unknown.

The first line, with an extra syllable, repeats the first line of the preceding poem, so two poems of the same banquet stand side by side with the same line.
The second line, with the perfective "tsu," means "the geese that cried."
In the third line, "nae" means "just as," linking the cold of the geese's voices with the coloring of the clover. Emperor Shōmu's 1540 in this book likewise sings, "just as I heard the geese's cry cold," of the coloring of the low reeds.
The fourth line names the lower leaves of the clover, the first to color as autumn deepens.
The final line, with the perfective "nu" and exclamatory "kamo," expresses deep feeling at their coloring.
Source: Manyoshu
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