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No orioles yet on willows—you set out
and promised you'd come back when cuckoos sang.
Cuckoos have followed orioles grown old—
before the house some swallows chirp and peep.

— Đặng Trần Côn

Thuở lâm hành oanh chưa mến liễu,
Hỏi ngày về, ước nẻo quyên ca.
Nay quyên đã giục, oanh già,
Ý nhi lại gáy trước nhà líu lo.

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At daybreak, heralds speed them through the mists—
the law outweighs what they may feel inside.

I see you off and sorrow—Oh, to be
your horse on land, your vessel on the stream!

Serve well your country with a true-red heart.
Defend your people with an iron will.

To silver may age never turn your hair!
And may I ever keep the looks of youth!

Winds howl and howl at ghosts of those war's killed—
on soldiers' faces shines the stalking moon.
O men, alive or dead, has anyone
portrayed your faces or invoked your souls?

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