我聽見女子的泣訴

I hear a woman weep

像風吹進竹林削薄竹葉

like wind thinning leaves in a bamboo grove,

四處尋找發燙的耳朵

a sound to be remembered

眼淚結冰的冬天

Tears may freeze in winter

她哭戰爭的絕望

when she cries for war’s despair,

黃鶯啼鳴的原野

or in spring, as black-naped orioles

她哭春天的迷惘

sing golden on the plains

and she laments lost seasons

日照下那女子

像河邊的蘆葦林中的葛藤

That woman in sunshine

與季節一同呼吸

like kudzu along a riverbank

翻過山岡

breathes with the light

牽掛是懸崖上的一條葛藤

On the mountain, care’s green vine

跨越棧橋

descends from a cliff edge

悲傷是溪流中的一根蘆葦

By the jetty

sorrow bends like a reed in the river

一日不見，如三月兮

一日不見，如三秋兮

A day without seeing you is three months

一日不見，如三歲兮

A day three autumns

A day three years

你問我往哪裡去

風在城門樓上來來回回

You ask where I’m going

有人採荇有人採薇

as wind flows this way or that

在愛與被愛的地方

through the gates of the city

小草撫觸肌膚般的土壤

Someone gathers yellow waterlilies, fern-shoots

我的情人與我相會

in places to love and be loved

又與我相別

Short grasses stroke the soil’s soft skin

I meet my lover

你問我何時歸來

then we part

兵士不再群聚干戈

絲綢不再片片撕裂

You ask when I may return

有人蠶桑有人浣衣

When troops no longer take weapons

星光交擊晨光的音符

and silk’s not torn to threads

我的情人啊天黑與我共眠

Some plant mulberry, raise silkworms

天亮為我相思

Some wash clothes

Starlight ebbs at dawn’s music

Lover, lie with me at dusk

and for me yearn at daybreak