雙語 ●走來窗下笑相扶

TUNE: A SOUTHERN SONG

Her golden-ribboned hair

With jeweled comb so fair,

She comes before the window to ask me with a smile:

“Are my eyebrows penciled in fashionable style?”

Leaning on me so long that I can’t write a line,

She wastes her time without tracing any design,

Only asking me how to spell these words:

“A pair of love-birds.”

南歌子

鳳髻金泥帶，

龍紋玉掌梳，

走來窗下笑相扶，

愛道畫眉深淺入時無？

弄筆偎人久，

插花試手初，

等閑妨了繡功夫，

笑問鴛鴦兩字怎生書？