Regularly the bettle sounds
As on the anvil stone it pounds.
After washing her warrior’s dress,
With ink and tears she writes down his address.
The package goes a thousand miles to the Jade Pass,
But the warrior is stationed farther west, alas!
砧面莹，
杵声齐，
捣就征衣泪墨题。
寄到玉关应万里，
戍人犹在玉关西。