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My hair first cover forehead Break flower gate before play You ride bamboo horse come Round walkway play green plums Together live Changgan county Two little without suspicion suspicion Fourteen become your wife Shy face still not open. Lower head face dark wall Thousand call not one turn Fifteen start open brow Wish together dust and ash Always maintain massive pillar faith Why climb look husband platform Sixteen you far go Qutang Yanyudui Fifth month not risk run aground Ape sound sky on sorrow Gate before back and forth mark One by one grow green moss Moss deep not able sweep Fall leaf autumn wind early Eighth month butterfly yellow Pair fly west garden grass Feel this hurt my heart Because sorrow red face old When descend Sanba Before do letter send home Mutual come to meet not say far Up to Changfengsha. |
When first my hair began to cover my forehead, I picked and played with flowers before the gate. You came riding on a bamboo horse, And circled the walkway, playing with green plums. We lived together, here in Changgan county, Two children, without the least suspicion. When I was fourteen, I became your wife, So shy that still my face remained unopened. I bowed my head towards the shadowed wall, And called one thousand times, I turned not once. At 15 I began to lift my brows, And wished to be with you as dust with ashes. You always kept your massive pillar faith, I had no need to climb the lookout hill. When I was sixteen, you went far away, To Yanyudui, within the Qutang gorge. You should not risk the dangerous floods of May, Now from the sky, the monkeys cry in mourning. Before the gate, my pacing's left a mark, Little by little, the green moss has grown. The moss is now too deep to sweep away, And leaves fall in the autumn's early winds. This August, all the butterflies are yellow, A pair fly over the western garden's grass. I feel that they are damaging my heart, Through worrying, my rosy face grows old. When you come down the river from Sanba, Beforehand, send a letter to your home. We'll go to meet each other, however far, I'll come up to Changfengsha. |