Waga yado ni nakishi karigane kumo no ue ni koyoi naku nari kuni e ka mo yuku

我が宿に鳴きし雁がね雲の上に
今夜鳴くなり国へかも行く

Roma-ji: Waga yado ni nakishi karigane kumo no ue ni koyoi naku nari kuni e ka mo yuku
English Translation: At my own dwelling
the wild geese that used to cry
high above the clouds
on this night I hear them call—
are they going to their home?
Meaning: The wild geese that cried at my home are crying tonight above the clouds—are they going back to their own land?
Commentary: Book Ten Autumn Miscellaneous Poems 2130

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "On Wild Geese"
Hearing the geese that once cried around the speaker's home now crying above the clouds tonight, this poem wonders whether they are going back to their homeland. In the receding voices of the geese, reluctance to see the departing ones leave overlaps with the poet's own homesickness. Like the receding geese of 2128, it sings of geese going away.

The first line, "at my dwelling," names the place they once cried.
In the second line, "nakishi karigane," "shi" is the attributive of the past "ki": the geese that cried.
The third line, "above the clouds," names where they now are.
In the fourth line, "koyoi naku nari," "nari" marks hearsay, showing their crying is known by sound. The poem breaks here.
In the last line, "kuni e ka mo yuku," "ka mo" is an interrogative particle in kakari-musubi with the attributive "yuku," closing with thoughts of their going home.
Source: Manyoshu
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