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How handsome is the retiring girl!
She presented to me a red tube.
Bright is the red tube; --
I delight in the beauty of the girl.
From the pasture lands she gave a shoet of the white grass,
Truly elegant and rare.
It is not you, O grass, that are elegant; --
You are the gift of an elegant girl.
【Source】 The English translation text was taken from The Chinese Classics, vol. 4 by James Legge (1898) and checked against a reprinted edition by Wen Zhi Zhe chu pan she (Taiwan, 1971). Transliteration of Chinese names in the English translation were converted to