Listen to this article樂府
孟郊
遊子吟
慈母手中線， 遊子身上衣；
臨行密密縫， 意恐遲遲歸。
誰言寸草心， 報得三春輝？
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?
