Now the end has come,
We part along diverging paths,
And one sad desire
Still lies heavy in my heart:
To live, not leave, our life.
From: Cranston, Edwin A. (ed. and transl.), A Waka Anthology: Volume Two – Grasses of Remembrance, Part B, 1993, Stanford University Press: Palo Alto, California, p. 689.
(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3RI7XH8bdMoC)
Date: 1000-1012 (original in Japanese); 1993 (translation in English)
By: Murasaki Shikibu (c973 or 978-c1014 or 1031)
Translated by: Edwin Augustus Cranston (1932- )
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