TUNE: SONG OF POUNDING CLOTHES

Regularly the bettle sounds

As on the anvil stone it pounds.

After washing her warrior’s dress,

With ink and tears she writes down his address.

The package goes a thousand miles to the Jade Pass,

But the warrior is stationed farther west, alas!

捣练子

砧面莹，

杵声齐，

捣就征衣泪墨题。

寄到玉关应万里，

戍人犹在玉关西。