Help With Japanese Poetry?

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In the Man'Yoshu there's a poem called "Dialog of the Destitute". It's either by Okura or Hitomaro. Is there a shred of optimism in the second speakers answer to the first? Or is the message simply that "this is our life and there is no escape, so continue to live".
 
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