昨宵庭外悲歌發，知是花魂與鳥魂？
　　花魂鳥魂總難留，鳥自無言花自羞；
　　Last night ,outside ,a mournful sound was heard:
　　The spirits of the flowers and of the bird.
　　But neither bird nor flowers would long delay,
　　Bird lacking speech,and flowers too shy to stay.

　　愿奴脅下生雙翼，隨花飛到天盡頭。
　　天盡頭，何處有香丘？
　　And then I wished that I had wings to fly
　　After the drifting flowers across the sky:
　　Across the sky to the world`s farthest end,
　　The flowers` last fragrant resting-place to find.

　　未若錦囊收艷骨，一抔凈土掩風流；
　　質本潔來還潔去，強于污淖陷渠溝。
　　But better their remains in silk to lay
　　And bury underneath the wholesome clay,
　　Pure substances the pure earth to enrich,
　　Than leave to soak and stink in some foul ditch.

　　爾今死去儂收葬，未卜儂身何日喪？
　　儂今葬花人笑癡，他年葬儂知是誰？
　　Can I,that these flowers` obsequies attend,
　　Divine how soon or late my life will end?
　　Let others laugh flower-burial to see:
　　Another year who will be burying me?

　　試看春殘花漸落，便是紅顏老死時；
　　一朝春盡紅顏老，花落人亡兩不知！
　　As petals drop and spring begins to fail,
　　The bloom of youth,too,sickens and turns pale.
　　One day,when spring has gone and youth has fled.
　　The Maiden and the flowers will both be dead.