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How the dolichos spread itself out, |
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Extending to the middle of the valley! |
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Its leaves were luxuriant; |
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The yellow birds flew about, |
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And collected on the thickly growing trees, |
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Their pleasant notes resounding far. |
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How the dolichos spread itself out, |
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Extending to the middle of the valley! |
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Its leaves were luxuriant and dense. |
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I cut it and I boiled it, |
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And made both fine cloth and coarse, |
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Which I will wear without getting tired of it. |
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I have told the matron, |
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Who will announce that I am going to see my parents. |
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I will wash my private clothes clean, |
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And I will rinse my robes. |
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Which need to be rinsed, which do not? |
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I am going back to visit my parents. |
Published
by The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, © Copyright 2003
by Anne Kinney and the University of Virginia