Zige Night Song / Winter Song
子夜吳歌/冬歌 · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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Zige Night Song / Winter Song
The courier departs at dawn; all night she sews the campaign robe.
Her pale hands pull the cold needle—how can she bear the scissors?
The finished garment is sent to the distant road: how many days to reach Lintao?
子夜吳歌/冬歌
明朝驛使發，一夜絮征袍。
素手抽針冷，那堪把剪刀。
裁縫寄遠道，幾日到臨洮。