“Just a round trip of three hundred li,
走去走来三百里，
Be back in five days,” she asked me.
五日以为期。
Now I am overdue one day,
六日归来已是疑，
Which must mean for her long hours of delay.
应是望多时。
“Giddap!” My galloping horse seems too slow,
鞭个马儿归去也，
For impatient I grow.
心急马行迟。
I shout to a passing magpie,
不免相烦喜鹊儿，
“Go quick! Tell her I’m coming. Fly!”
先报那人知。