“We look to find each other but cannot—
we only see those green mulberry groves.
Mulberry groves all share one shade of green—
of your own grief and mine, which hurts the more?”

—  Đặng Trần Côn

Source: Chinh phụ ngâm, Lines 61–64

Original

Cùng trông lại mà cùng chẳng thấy, Thấy xanh xanh những mấy ngàn dâu. Ngàn dâu xanh ngắt một màu, Lòng chàng ý thiếp ai sầu hơn ai?

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