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Spring in the Jade Tower: Before the Cup I Would Set a Date
尊前拟把归期说，
欲语春容先惨咽。
人生自是有情痴，
此恨不关风与月。
Before the wine cup I meant to speak of the day I return, but as I begin, a lovely face is already overcome with grief. Life of itself holds love's folly; this sorrow has nothing to do with wind or moon.
离歌且莫翻新阕，
一曲能教肠寸结。
直须看尽洛城花，
始共春风容易别。
Sing no new stanza of the parting song — one strain of it can tie the heart in knots. Only when all the flowers of Luoyang have been seen can one part easily, then, with the spring wind.
Reading notes
欲语 also appears as 未语. This page retains 欲语, beginning to speak, and the English follows that reading. 咽 in 惨咽 is read yè, to choke with emotion; 曲 in 一曲 is read qǔ.