Uguisu no naki tsuru koe ni sasowarete hana no moto ni zo ware wa ki ni keru - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

鴬の鳴きつる声に誘はれて
花のもとにぞ我は来にける

Roma-ji: Uguisu no naki tsuru koe ni sasowarete hana no moto ni zo ware wa ki ni keru
English Translation: By the warbler's voice,
by the song that it has sung,
lured and led along,
to the foot of the blossoms
I have come, I find
Meaning: Lured by the song the warbler sang, I find I have come to stand beneath the blossoms.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems I 35

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Topic unknown."
Lured by the warbler's song, the poet finds he has come to the blossoms before he knew it. Plainly singing the bond between the warbler and the flowers, two images of spring, it conveys the lift of a heart beckoned by spring.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "By the warbler's voice," continues the warbler poems from before.
In the second line, "tsuru" is perfective: "by the voice that just sang." Whereas the warbler's voice in the preceding poem, 34, went unheeded, here it draws the poet to the blossoms, forming a contrast.
The third line, "lured and led along," shows the heart enticed by the song.
In the fourth line, "zo" forms a kakarimusubi pattern with the attributive "keru" in the last line.
In the last line, "keru" expresses a sigh of realization, that the poet has come to the blossoms without noticing.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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