Anonymous Song from Dun Huang (5th to 10th century)
On my pillow, a thousand vows you've made:
You won't divorce me
till the green mountains have decayed;
Till the steelyard weight floats on water-top,
And the Yellow River completely dries up;
Till the stars, Orion and Lucifer,
appear together in broad daylight,
And the Big Dipper seen in the south at night.
So, divorce me you cannot,
Till the sun at midnight we spot.
【英譯詞選】菩薩蠻
敦煌曲子詞（五至十世紀 - 無名氏）
枕前發盡千般願：要休且待青山爛。
水面上秤錘浮，直待黃河徹底枯。
白日參辰現，北斗回南面。
休即未能休，且待三更見日頭。
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