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Hyakunin Isshu: poem 62 (Sei Shōnagon・yo wo komete)

Said night was young when the false rooster crowed, but the gates of Osaka remained shut.

Hyakunin Isshu: poem 42 (Kiyohara no Motosuke・chigiriki na)

Impassioned vows exchanged over many a tear shed to  last until the day waves crash over Mount Suenomatsu.
"In autumn, the evening - the blazing sun has sunk very close to the mountain rim, and now even the crows, in threes and fours or twos and threes, hurrying to their roost, are a moving sight." From Sei Shonagon's "The Pillow Book". Chapter I. In spring, the dawn. .. Translation by Meredith McKinney, Penguin Classics, 2006