Yoi nagara hiru ni mo aranan natsu nareba machikurasu ma no hodo nakaru beku - Gosen Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

宵ながら昼にもあらなん夏なれば
待ち暮らす間のほど無かるべく

Roma-ji: Yoi nagara hiru ni mo aranan natsu nareba machikurasu ma no hodo nakaru beku
English Translation: Let it be evening
even while it still is day,
since it's summertime,
so the time I wait all day
may grow shorter for me now
Meaning: Let it be evening even in the daytime—for it is summer, and so the hours I spend waiting all day long might grow shorter.
Commentary: Book Four Summer Poems 205

Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet wishes it might stay evening even in the daytime, for summer days are long, so that the time spent waiting for the beloved would be shorter. The poem conveys the impatience of waiting through a long summer day for evening.
The poet is listed as "anonymous," and the composer's name has not come down to us. The text gives the author as "yomibito mo," but it is treated here as anonymous.
The text gives the last line as "hodo nakaru beku," which does not match "hodo nakaru beki" in the kana reading line. The wording of the text is followed here.

The first line, "Yoi nagara," means "just as it is in the evening," pointing to the evening hour when a lover visits.
In the second line, "nan" is a particle expressing a wish directed at another: "I wish it were day as well." It wishes to swap the hours, letting it be evening while still day.
The third line, "natsu nareba," means "because it is summer," giving the season of long days as the reason.
The fourth line, "machikurasu ma no," means "of the time I spend waiting all day." Like "natsu no hi no kuregataki" in 173 of this book, it laments the length of the summer day.
The last line, "hodo nakaru beku," means "so that the time may be short," with "beku" as the continuative form of the auxiliary "beshi." It gives the purpose of the wish in the second line in inverted order.
Author: Unknown Poet
Source: Gosen Wakashu
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