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Praise whoever sketched this desolate scene.

— Hồ Xuân Hương Spring Essence (2000)

Khen ai khéo vẽ cảnh tiêu sơ.

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My body is white; my fate, softly rounded,
rising and sinking like mountains in streams.
Whatever way hands may shape me,
at center my heart is red and true.

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Nirvana is here, nine times out of ten.

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I see it up there in the corner of my eye:
the General's tomb standing all alone.
If I could change my fate, become a man
of heroic deed, couldn't I do better?

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To hell with the fate that makes you share a man... You slave like the maid, but without the pay. If I had known how it would go, I think I would have lived alone.

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