-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 044 乐府 孟郊 烈女操 梧桐相待老,鸳鸯会双死; 贞妇贵殉夫,舍生亦如此。 波澜誓不起,妾心井中水。 ----------------------
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乐府
孟郊
烈女操
梧桐相待老, 鸳鸯会双死;
贞妇贵殉夫, 舍生亦如此。
波澜誓不起, 妾心井中水。
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Folk-song-styled-verse
Meng Jiao
A SONG OF A PURE-HEARTED GIRL
Lakka-trees ripen two by two
And mandarin-ducks die side by side.
If a true-hearted girl will love only her husband,
In a life as faithfully lived as theirs,
What troubling wave can arrive to vex
A spirit like water in a timeless well?
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乐府
孟郊
游子吟
慈母手中线, 游子身上衣;
临行密密缝, 意恐迟迟归。
谁言寸草心, 报得三春辉?
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Folk-song-styled-verse
Meng Jiao
A TRAVELLER\’S SONG
The thread in the hands of a fond-hearted mother
Makes clothes for the body of her wayward boy;
Carefully she sews and thoroughly she mends,
Dreading the delays that will keep him late from home.
But how much love has the inch-long grass
For three spring months of the light of the sun?
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