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张祜: 何满子/ Zhang Hu: SHE SINGS AN OLD SONG

何满子

张祜

故国三千里, 深宫二十年。

一声何满子, 双泪落君前。

 

SHE SINGS AN OLD SONG

Zhang Hu

A lady of the palace these twenty years,

She has lived here a thousand miles from her home-

Yet ask her for this song and, with the first few words of it,

See how she tries to hold back her tears.