Kaku nagara chirade yo o ya wa tsukushitenu hana no tokiwa mo ari to miru beku - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

かくながら散らで世をやは尽くしてぬ
花のときはもありと見るべく

Roma-ji: Kaku nagara chirade yo o ya wa tsukushitenu hana no tokiwa mo ari to miru beku
English Translation: Just as you are now,
won't you live out all your days
and never scatter,
so that we may see that flowers
too can be evergreen?
Meaning: Will you not stay just as you are, never scattering, to the end of your days—so that we might see that flowers, too, can be forever unchanging?
Commentary: Book Three Spring Poems III 95

Headnote: "At the end of spring, at a place where various people were lamenting the flowers."
The poet wishes the blossoms would bloom on just as they are without ever falling, so that one could see that flowers too have something unchanging, like evergreen trees. Regret for the flowers at the end of spring is expressed as a longing for permanence.
According to the headnote, it was composed at the end of spring where people had gathered to lament the passing of the flowers.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us.

The first line, "Kaku nagara," means "just as you are," pointing to the blossoms now in bloom.
In the second line, "de" is a negative conjunctive particle, "without falling." "Ya wa" is a particle that combines with the attributive "nu" of the third line to express the wish "won't you…?"
In the third line, "yo o tsukusu" means to live out one's days in this world. The poem pauses here.
In the fourth line, "tokiwa" means eternally unchanging, or evergreen. 111 and 124 of this book sing of evergreen pines, setting unchanging green against the fading flowers within the book.
In the last line, "beku" means "so that one may," forming an inversion with the third line.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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