“Your way leads you to lands of rain and wind—
mine takes me back to our old room, our bed.”

— Đặng Trần Côn

Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 53–54

Original

Chàng thì đi cõi xa mưa gió, Thiếp thì về buồng cũ gối chăn.

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writer 1710–1745

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