Okurite wa kaere to omoishi tamashii no yukisasuraite kesa wa naki kana - Kinyo Wakashu(English Translation & Meaning)

送りては帰れと思ひし魂の
ゆきさすらひて今朝はなきかな

Roma-ji: Okurite wa kaere to omoishi tamashii no yukisasuraite kesa wa naki kana
English Translation: When I saw you off
I thought: now come back to me,
but my soul, instead,
went wandering on with you,
and this morning it is gone
Meaning: When I saw you off I told my soul to come back to me, but it has wandered away with you, and this morning it is gone.
Commentary: Book Eight Love Poems II 473

The soul that the poet bade return after seeing the beloved off has followed the beloved and wandered away, so that this morning it is no longer within her. The poem expresses the daze after parting as the soul leaving the body to wander.
The next poem, 474, takes up the word okuri, seeing off, and sings that none but one's shadow saw one off, so the two poems answer each other around the act of seeing someone off.

First line, 'okurite wa', means having seen you off, sending off a beloved who is going home.
Second line, 'kaere to omoishi', means I thought, come back, using shi, the attributive of the past ki, in a line with an extra syllable.
Third line, 'tamashii no', means my soul.
Fourth line, 'yukisasuraite', means going off and wandering.
Final line, 'kesa wa naki kana', means this morning it is not within me, closing with the exclamatory kana.
Source: Kinyo Wakashu
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