翻刻
へにふしまろひかなしみけりすてにくるまとをさか
りけれはこゝよりやかてそぬき出しふき給ひけ
れはくるまのとをさかるにしたかひてふえのをと
とをくなりけるさるほとに夜もはやほの〳〵とあ
けくれはしゝうもかへり侍りけり中将殿はせきさ
んにゆきくるまをはみやこへかへされけり六ゐの
しんとたゝふたりひえの山へのほりてよりはといふ
ところにとしころしりたるひしりをたつねておは
してしゆつけせんとありしかはひしりおほきに
さはきてみやこへかくと申さら〳〵かなふましき
よし申けれはひしりをしるといふことはかやうの
現代語訳
辺に伏し転び悲しみけり。既に車遠く離れければ、ここよりやがて衣抜き出し吹き給いければ、車の遠ざかるに従いて笛の音遠くなりけり。さるほどに夜も早やほのぼのと明けくれば、侍従も帰り侍りけり。中将殿は赤坂に行き、車をば都へ返されけり。六位の身とただ二人、比叡の山へ登りて、「寄りは」という所に年頃知りたる聖を尋ねておはして、出家せんとありしかば、聖大いに騒ぎて「都へ帰ると申さば、更々叶うまじき」旨申しければ、「聖を知るということはかような」
英語訳
...he lay prostrate and rolled about in grief. As the carriage had already departed far away, from here he immediately drew out his robe and played his flute, and as the carriage moved further away, the sound of the flute grew more distant. Meanwhile, as night was already breaking into dawn, the gentleman-in-waiting also returned. The Middle Captain went to Akasaka and sent his carriage back to the capital. With just the two of them, he of sixth court rank, they climbed Mount Hiei, and visiting a holy man he had known for years at a place called "Yoriba," when he expressed his intention to become a monk, the holy man was greatly alarmed and said, "If you speak of returning to the capital, that would be absolutely impossible." "To know a holy man means situations like this..."