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If "not to forget"

Will for him in future years

Be too difficult;

It were well this very day

That my life, ah me! should close.

百(ひゃく)人(にん)一(いっ)首(しゅ) #54 by 儀(ぎ)同(どう)三(さん)司(しの)母(はは)

Notes on this poem

Translation by Clay MacCauley via Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917

---
title: 百人一首 第54番 [忘]{わす}れじの
japanese:
- - - pos: verb
      text:
      - 忘: わす
      - れ
      dictionary: 忘れる
    - pos: verb
      text: じ
    - pos: particle
      text: の
  - - pos: verb
      text:
      - 行: ゆ
      - く
      dictionary: 行く
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - 末: すゑ
    - pos: particle
      text: まで
      dictionary: 迄
    - pos: particle
      text: は
  - - pos: adjective
      text: かたけれ
      dictionary: 難い
    - pos: particle
      text: ば
- - - pos: noun
      text:
      - 今日: けふ
    - pos: particle
      text: を
    - pos: noun
      text:
      - 限: かぎ
      - り
      dictionary: 限り
    - pos: particle
      text: の
  - - pos: noun
      text:
      - 命: いのち
    - pos: particle
      text: と
    - pos: particle
      text: もがな
      dictionary: https://kobun.weblio.jp/content/もがな
image:
  file: card.jpg
  alt: 儀同三司母の歌のかるた札
  credit:
    name: Wikimedia Commons
    link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hyakuninisshu_054.jpg
english:
- If "not to forget"
- Will for him in future years
- Be too difficult;
- It were well this very day
- That my life, ah me! should close.
translation:
  author: Clay MacCauley
  site:
    name: Hyakunin-Isshu (Single Songs of a Hundred Poets), 1917
    link: https://jti.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/macauley.html
---

[百]{ひゃく}[人]{にん}[一]{いっ}[首]{しゅ} #54 by [儀]{ぎ}[同]{どう}[三]{さん}[司]{しの}[母]{はは}

[Notes on this poem]https://hyakuninisshu.jp/poem/54/