On Love... from the Yuan Dynasty

This poem was written over 700 years ago by the only famous female artist from the Yuan Dynasty - Guan Daosheng (管道升).

我儂詞

你儂我儂，

忒煞情多，

情多處，

熱如火。

把一塊泥，

捻一個你，

塑一個我。

將咱兩個，

一齊打破，

用水調和。

再捻一個你，

再塑一個我。

我泥中有你，

你泥中有我。

與你生同一個衾，

死同一個槨。

Married Love

You and I

Have so much love,

That it

Burns like a fire,

In which we bake a lump of clay

Molded into a figure of you

And a figure of me.

Then we take both of them,

And break them into pieces,

And mix the pieces with water,

And mold again a figure of you,

And a figure of me.

I am in your clay.

You are in my clay.

In life we share a single quilt,

In death we will share one coffin.

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