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无名氏·《鹊踏枝》
叵耐灵鹊多谩语，
送喜何曾有凭据。
几度飞来活捉取，
锁上金笼休共语。
比拟好心来送喜，
谁知锁我在金笼里。
欲他征夫早归来，
腾身却放我向青云里。
Tune: “The Magpie on a Branch”
Anonymous
How can I bear to hear the chattering magpie
Announce the happy news on which I can’t rely?
So thus I catch it alive when it flies to me again
And shut it in a cage where lonely ’twill remain.
-With good intent I brought her a happy message.
Who would expect she’d shut me in a golden cage?
I wish her husband would come back soon so that I
Might be set free and take my flight to the blue sky.
