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君知妾有夫，贈妾雙明珠。感君纏綿意，繫在紅羅襦。君家高樓連苑起，良人執戟明光1裡。知君用心如日月，事夫誓擬同生死。還君明珠雙淚垂，恨不相逢未嫁時。

Song of a Chaste Woman
by Zhang Ji of Tang Dynasty

You know I have husband;
Yet you give me a pair of pearls.
I feel your love for me,
And tie them on my red gauze dress.
You have high tower after tower at home;
My husband holds a halberd in Mingguang Hall1.
I know your heart as clearly as the sun and moon.
But I’m loyal to husband, having vowed to live and die together.
So I have to return the pearls to you, with tears down my face;
I only regret that we didn’t meet before marriage.