“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?”

—  Đặng Trần Côn

Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 97–100

Original

Hồn tử sĩ gió ù ù thổi, Mặt chinh phu trăng dõi dõi soi. Chinh phu tử sĩ mấy người, Nào ai mạc mặt, nào ai gọi hồn.

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