The Jade Mountain/A Song of a Pure-Hearted Girl

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Thoughts of Old Time on the Ch'u River

The Jade Mountain
translated by Witter Bynner and Jiang Kanghu

A Song of a Pure-Hearted Girl by Meng Jiao

A Traveller's Song

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4728292The Jade Mountain — A Song of a Pure-Hearted GirlWitter Bynner and Jiang KanghuMeng Jiao

Mêng Chiao

郊　孟

A SONG OF A PURE-HEARTED GIRL

(Written to Music)

Lakka-trees ripen two by twoAnd mandarin-ducks die side by side.If a true-hearted girl will love only her husband,In a life as faithfully lived as theirs,What troubling wave can arrive to vexA spirit like water in a timeless well?