你明知我已是有夫之妇，却还依然赠予我一对明珠。

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by Chang Chi (710 - 782)

Translation © by YiLing Chaing

节妇吟·寄东平李司空师道

Language: Chinese (中文)

君知妾有夫，赠妾双明珠。
感君缠绵意，系在红罗襦。
妾家高楼连苑起，良人执戟明光里。
知君用心如日月，事夫誓拟同生死。
还君明珠双泪垂，恨不相逢未嫁时。

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by Chang Chi (710 - 782), "节妇吟·寄东平李司空师道" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by Henri Pierre Roché (1879 - 1959) ; composed by Albert Roussel.
Also set in French (Français), a translation by Judith Gautier (1845 - 1917) , "L'épouse vertueuse", appears in Le livre de jade, 1867 edition, in 1. Les amoureux, no. 4, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867 ; composed by Gabriel-André Fabre.

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CHI Chinese (中文) (YiLing Chaing) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Herbert Allen Giles) , no title, New York, London: D. Appleton and Co., first published 1924

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你明知我已是有夫之妇，却还依然赠予我一对明珠。

Language: Chinese (中文) after the Chinese (中文)

你明知我已是有夫之妇，却还依然赠予我一对明珠。
明白此寓情意深重缠绵，只得将明珠系红罗短衫上。
我夫家高楼倚着皇家庭苑，而丈夫是皇家持戟侍卫。
虽然知晓你真心日月可昭，但我愿随丈夫生死与共。
我以两行泪眼回应双明珠，相逢恨晚且不在未嫁前。

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