新婚別

杜甫唐代

兔絲附蓬麻，

引蔓故不長。

嫁女與徵夫，

不如棄路旁。

結髮爲君妻，

席不暖君牀。

暮婚晨告別，

無乃太匆忙！

君行雖不遠，

守邊赴河陽。

妾身未分明，

何以拜姑嫜？

父母養我時，

日夜令我藏。

生女有所歸，

雞狗亦得將。

君今往死地，

沉痛迫中腸。

誓欲隨君去，

形勢反蒼黃。

勿爲新婚念，

努力事戎行。

婦人在軍中，

兵氣恐不揚。

自嗟貧家女，

久致羅襦裳。

羅襦不復施，

對君洗紅妝。

仰視百鳥飛，

大小必雙翔。

人事多錯迕，

與君永相望。

譯文

The creeper clinging to the flax is wrong,
For it can't be expected to grow long.
If a maiden to a soldier is tied
In wedlock, better forsake her by roadside.
My hair dressed up, to you I'm newly wed,
But we have not yet warmed our nuptial bed.
Married last night, at dawn we bid adieu.
Why should I part in such hurry with you?
Though you may not be very far away,
Only in Heyang garrison you'll stay.
I have not performed the rites of a wife.
How can I serve your parents all my life?
Bred by my parents, I was told it's right
To hide indoors every day and night.
Oh, I am destined to go to your house
Like a hen or a dog to be your spouse.
Now you go to a place in face of death,
How can I not utter my painful breath?
I would follow you wherever you go,
But I fear it would bring less weal than woe.
So forget the bride in your family then,
But do your duty as all army men.
If there were women in the camp, I fear,
It's no good for morale on the frontier.
As a daughter of a poor family,
It's difficult to get silk robe for me.
But I fear I could not wear it again,
Rougeless and powderless I would remain.
Looking up, I see hundreds of birds fly,
Big or small, all of them in pairs on high.
Why different should be our human fate?
O how long, how long should I for you wait!