瀬を早み絶えず流るる水よりも
絶えせぬものは恋にぞありける
絶えせぬものは恋にぞありける
- Roma-ji
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Se o hayami taezu nagaruru mizu yori mo taesenu mono wa koi ni zo arikeru
- English Translation
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Swift in its shallows
the water flows without cease,
and yet more than this
the thing that never ceases
is love, as I have learned
- Meaning
- More ceaseless than the water that runs unbroken through the swift shallows, I have found, is love.
- Commentary
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Book Fourteen Love Poems VI 1059
Headnote: "Topic unknown."
The poet says that what never ceases, even more than water flowing ceaselessly through swift shallows, is love. Calling on the unbroken flow of a rapid, he speaks of a love that runs on without pause beyond even that.
Using the same line "se o hayami" as the preceding poem, 1058, it takes the swift shallows of the river of tears and lays the unbroken flow over love itself. 1010 in this book also speaks of a love that does not cease through water that has begun to flow.
The poet is listed as anonymous, and the composer's name has not come down to us.
The first line, "Se o hayami," means "since its shallows run so swift," the same as the third line of the preceding poem.
The second line, "taezu nagaruru," means "flowing without cease."
The third line, "mizu yori mo," means "more than that water," marking a comparison.
The fourth line, "taesenu mono wa," means "the thing that never ceases," repeating the "taezu" of the second line for emphasis.
The last line, "koi ni zo arikeru," means "was love," closing the binding particle "zo" with the attributive "keru." "Keri" expresses the exclamation of a realization.
- Author
- Unknown Poet
- Source
- Gosen Wakashu
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