Listen to this article樂府
孟郊
烈女操
梧桐相待老， 鴛鴦會雙死；
貞婦貴殉夫， 捨生亦如此。
波瀾誓不起， 妾心井中水。
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?
