Translation request: Kuroda-bushi

[muckefuck]

I took a stab at this and didn't get very far. Anyone know their way around 16th century Japanese?

古き都に来て見れば
浅茅が原とぞ　なりにける
月の光はくまなくて
秋風のみぞ　身にはしむ

Edit: Romaji for niemandsrose. (Syllables written in kanji are bolded.)

furuki miyakoni kite mireba,
Asajigaharatozo narinikeru,
tsuki no hikariwa kumanakute,
akikazenomizo miniwashimu

Further Edit:Well, I finally managed to track down a translation (no thanks to you bitches!). As it turns out, the poem appears in Chapter 5.2 of the Heike monogatari. Here it is in McCullough's (somewhat overadorned) translation:

When I came once more to the former capital
I could find only a desolate rush-wild plain
The light of the moon fills all of heaven and earth
The bitter winds of autumn pierce me to the bone

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kumanakute

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Dude! I got distracted by Kuroda Josui (1546-1604), aka "Don Simeon"!