关汉卿·《双调·大德歌·春》英译

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Guan Hanqing

the cuckoo cries

go home, go home

but only spring returns

never my loved one.

how many more days of this languor?

willow fluff comes floating

fluttering, emptied, down.

all spring no word.

only a pair of swallows fly

mud in their beaks

to build a nest.