“By riverside are cooing
A pair of turtledoves;
A good young man is wooing
A maiden fair he loves.”

— Xu Yuanchong

The Book of Poetry, "A Fair Maiden"
Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (1994)

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