[Footnote 20: Or "satisfy itself." A literal rendering is difficult.]

Toshi no koï
Koyoï tsukushíté,
Asu yori wa,
Tsuné no gotoku ya
Waga koï oran.

[_The love-longing of one whole year having ended to-night,
every day from to-morrow I must again pine for him as
before!_]

Hikoboshi to
Tanabata-tsumé to
Koyoï aü;--
Ama-no-Kawa to ni
Nami tatsu-na yumé!

[_Hikoboshi and Tanabata-tsumé are to meet each other
to-night;--ye waves of the River of Heaven, take heed that ye
do not rise!_]

Aki-kazé no
Fuki tadayowasu
Shirakumo wa,
Tanabata-tsumé no
Amatsu hiré kamo?

[_Oh! that white cloud driven by the autumn-wind--can it be
the heavenly hiré[21] of Tana-bata-tsumé?_]