纖云弄巧，飛星傳恨，銀漢迢迢暗度。金風玉露一相逢，便勝卻人間無數。

　　柔情似水，佳期如夢，忍顧鵲橋歸路!兩情若是久長時，又豈在朝朝暮暮!

　　Clouds float like works of art;

　　Stars shoot with grief at heart.

　　Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the Maid

　　When Autumn’s Golden wind embraces Dew of Jades，

　　All the love scenes on earth，however many， fade

　　Their tender love flows like a stream;

　　This happy date seems but a dream.

　　Can they bear a separate homeward way?

　　If love between both sides can last for aye，

　　Why need they stay together night and day? (許淵沖 譯)