TUNE: SONG OF DIVINATION

When I want to see you, you won’t appear;

When I want to approach, you won’t come near.

I ask how much love from you I may get,

Afraid it is not much more than regret.

Can I keep back my tears

And refrain from spirits low?

Distress on earth knows no frontiers,

There’s no distress I do not know.

 

卜算子

要见不得见，

要近不得近。

试问得君多少怜？

管不解多于恨。

禁止不得泪，

忍管不得闷。

天上人间有底愁，

向个里都谙尽。