Double Seven Night
- Poetry of Zheng Xie

I

The two worlds are drudging away,

And the magpie’s bridge arched over the ripply waves

Will be a quarantine the whole year except this day

Of the cowherd to get clearer views.

II

The night is waning for a hollow parting,

Seize the livelong night to tell stories yearning.

Sufficient for the next year is the evil thereof,

And let sink the woes that would freeze over.