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Faded Flowers
huā
xiè
huā
fēi
fēi
mǎn
tiān
,
,
hóng
xiāo
xiāng
duàn
yǒu
shuí
lián

yóu

ruǎn

piāo
chūn
xiè
,
,
luò
xù
qīng
zhān
pū
xìu
lián
.
.

guī
zhōng

ér

chūn
mù
,
,
chóu
xù
mǎn
huái
怀
wú
shì
chǔ
.
.

shǒu
bǎ
huā
chú
chū
xìu
wéi
,
,
rěn
tā
luò
huā
lái
fù
qù
.
.

As blossoms fade and fly across the sky,

Who pities the faded red, the scent that has been?

Softly the gossamer floats over spring pavilions,

Gently the willow fluff wafts to the embroidered screen.

A girl in her chamber mourns the passing of spring,

No relief from anxiety her poor heart knows,

Hoe in hand she steps through her portal,

Loath to tread on the blossom as she comes and goes

lǐu

yú
jiá

fāng
fēi
,
,
bù
guǎn
táo
piāo
yǔ

fēi
.
.

táo

míng
nián
néng
zài
fā
,
,
míng
nián
guī
zhōng
zhī
yǒu
shuí

sān
yuè
xiāng
cháo
chū
lěi
chéng
,
,
liáng
jiān
yān

tài
wú
qíng
.
.

míng
nián
huā
fā
suī
kě
zhuó
,
,
què
bù
dào
rén
qù
liáng
kōng
cháo
yě
qīng
.
.


nián
sān
bǎi
lìu
shí

,
,
fēng
dāo
shuāng
jiàn
yán
xiāng

.
.

míng
mèi
xiāng
yán
néng

shí
,
,

cháo
piāo
bó
nán
xún

.
.

Willows and elms, fresh and verdant,

Care not if peach and plum blossom drift away;

Next year, though once again you may peck the buds,

From the beam of an empty room your nest will fall.

Each year for three hundred and sixty days,

The cutting wind and biting frost contend.

How long can beauty flower fresh and fair?

In a single day wind can whirl it to its end.

huā
kāi

jiàn
luò
nán
xún
,
,
jiē
qián
chóu
shā
zàng
huā
rén
.
.

dú

huā
chú
lèi
àn
sǎ
,
,
sǎ
shàng
kōng
zhī
jiàn
xuè
hén
.
.

dù
juān
wú
yǔ
zhèng
huáng
hūn
,
,
hé
chú
guī
qù
yǎn
zhòng
mén
.
.

qīng
dēng
zhào

rén
chū
shuì
,
,
lěng
yǔ
qiāo
chuāng
bèi
wèi
wēn
.
.

Fallen, the brightest blooms are hard to find;

With aching heart their gravedigger comes now

Alone, her hoe in hand, her secret tears

Falling like drops of blood on each bare bough.

Dusk falls and the cuckoo is silent;

Her hoe brought back, the lodge is locked and still

A green lamp lights the wall as sloop enfolds her,

Cold rain pelts the casement and her quilt is chill

guài
nú

shì
bèi
shāng
shén
,
,
bàn
wèi
lián
chūn
bàn
nǎo
chūn
.
.

lián
chūn
hū
zhì
nǎo
hū
qù
,
,
zhì
yòu
wú
yán
qù
wú
wén
.
.

zuó
xiāo
tíng
wài
bēi
gē
fā
,
,
zhī
shì
huā
hún
yǔ
niǎo
hún

huā
hún
niǎo
hún
zǒng
nán
líu
,
,
niǎo

wú
yán
huā

xīu
.
.

What causes my two-fold anguish?

Love for spring and resentment of spring;

For suddenly it comes and suddenly goes,

Its arrival unheralded, noiseless its departing.

Last night from the courtyard floated a sad song-

Was it the soul of blossom, the soul of birds?

Hard to detain, the soul of blossom or birds,

For blossoms have no assurance, birds no words

yuàn
nú
xié
xià
shēng
shuāng

,
,
suí
huā
fēi
dào
tiān
jìn
tóu
.
.

tiān
jìn
tóu
,
,
hé
chǔ
yǒu
xiāng
qīu

wèi
ruò
jǐn
nāng
shōu
yàn
gǔ
,
,



jìng
tǔ
yǎn
fēng
líu
zhì
běn
jié
lái
hái
jié
qù
,
,
bù
jiāo
wū
nào
xiàn
qú
gōu

I long to take wing and fly

With the flowers to earth’s uttermost bound;

And yet at earth’s uttermost bound

Where can a fragrant burial mound be found?

Better shroud the fair petals in silk

With clean earth for their outer attire;

For pure you came and pure shall go,

Not sinking into some foul ditch or mire.

ěr
jīn

qù
nóng
shōu
zàng
,
,
wèi
bǔ
nóng
shēn
hé

sāng

nóng
jīn
zàng
huā
rén
xiào
chī
,
,
tā
nián
zàng
nóng
zhī
shì
shuí

shì
kàn
chūn
cán
huā
jiàn
luò
,
,
pián
便
shì
hóng
yán
lǎo

shí
.
.


cháo
chūn
jìn
hóng
yán
lǎo
,
,
huā
luò
rén
wáng
liǎng
bù
zhī
.
.

Now you are dead I come to bury you;

None has divined the day when I shall die;

Men laugh at my folly in burying fallen flowers,

But who will bury me when dead I lie?

See, when spring draws to a close and flowers fall,

This is the season when beauty must ebb and fade;

The day that spring takes wing and beauty fades,

Who will care for the fallen blossom or dead maid


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