Nakanaka ni chiru o miji to ya omouramu hana no sakari ni kaeru karigane - Shika Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

なかなかに散るを見じとや思ふらむ
花の盛りに帰る雁がね

Roma-ji: Nakanaka ni chiru o miji to ya omouramu hana no sakari ni kaeru karigane
English Translation: Rather than linger,
do they think they will not watch
the blossoms scatter?
In the fullness of the flowers
the wild geese are going home.
Meaning: Do they think it better not to see the blossoms fall? Even at the height of the flowers, the wild geese are heading home.
Commentary: Book One Spring Poems 34

Seeing wild geese depart north at the height of the blossoms, the poet wonders whether they are sparing themselves the pain of watching the flowers fall. Where the preceding poem guessed at the beauty of flowers in the geese's homeland, this one lends the geese a heart that cannot bear to see blossoms scatter.
The author is said to be Minamoto no Tadasue.

The first line, "rather than linger," renders "nakanaka ni," half-heartedly or all the more, the feeling that seeing would only hurt more.
The second line, "they will not watch them scatter," uses "ji" for negative intention and "ya" for a question.
The third line, "do they think," closes a kakari-musubi with the "ya" of the second line and the attributive of "ramu"; the poem breaks here.
The fourth line, "in the fullness of the flowers," takes up the "blossoms" of the preceding poem.
The last line, "the wild geese are going home," answers "the wild geese flying north" in the preceding poem and closes the pair of returning-geese poems.
Source: Shika Wakashu
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