「念金銮子二首」白居易

衰病四十身，娇痴三岁女。非男犹胜无，慰情时一抚。

一朝舍我去，魂影无处所。况念夭札时，呕哑初学语。

始知骨肉爱，乃是忧悲聚。唯思未有前，以理遣伤苦。 

忘怀日已久，三度移寒暑。今日一伤心，因逢旧乳母。

REMEMRKRING GOLDDEN BELLS 

Ruined and ill, — a man of two score ; 

Pretty and guileless, — a girl of three. 

Not a boy, — but still better than nothing: 

To soothe one's feeling, — from time to time a kiss! 

There came a day, — they suddenly took her from me; 

Her soul's shadow wandered I know not where. 

And when I remember how just at the time she died 

She lisped strange sounds, beginning to learn to talk, 

Then I know that the ties of flesh and blood 

Only bind us to a load of grief and sorrow. 

At last, by thinking of the time before she was born, 

By thought and reason I drove the pain away. 

Since my heart forgot her, many days have passed 

And three times winter has changed to spring. 

This morning, for a little, the old grief came back, 

Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse.