Kumoi naru umiyama koete iyukinaba are wa koimu na nochi wa ainu tomo

雲居なる海山越えてい行きなば
我れは恋ひむな後は逢ひぬとも

Roma-ji: Kumoi naru umiyama koete iyukinaba are wa koimu na nochi wa ainu tomo
English Translation: If you cross the seas
and mountains far as clouds
and go away,
how I shall long for you,
though later we may meet
Meaning: If you cross the seas and mountains far off among the clouds, how I will long for you, even if we meet again later.
Commentary: Book Twelve Poems Lamenting Parting 3190

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Poems Lamenting Parting"
The poet sings that once the beloved crosses seas and mountains far off among the clouds, longing will come even if they meet again later. Sharing its fourth line with poem 3188 in this book, it says that even a promised reunion does not erase the longing in between.
The poet is unknown. Book Twelve, titled the second part of "Love Poems Exchanged Old and New," gathers love poems by people whose names have not come down to us, arranged by category.

Line one, "kumoi naru," means "far off among the clouds."
Line two, "umiyama koete," means "crossing seas and mountains."
Line three, "iyukinaba," means "if you go," with "i" a prefix.
Line four, "are wa koimu na," means "how I shall long," the same line as in poem 3188 in this book, and the poem pauses here.
Line five, "nochi wa ainu tomo," means "though later we may meet," a hypermetric line of eight syllables. Poem 3203 in this book ends with the same line.
Author: Unknown
Source: Manyoshu
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