Turbulent Discourse

- Won't you bring me the first shiuli blossom of autumn's day?
- Ah, why wouldn't I? But tell me first, where are your green dangling earrings today?
- I have them, just didn't wear them. Perhaps I'll put them on some other day?
- But I had thought today I'd see you with my whole heart's gaze!
- Oh my, do I look so terribly ugly then, you say?
- Lift your veil, let me fix that vermillion dot. Though 'with my whole heart' means no ornaments at all — I want to see you plain, when moonlight breaks through and falls!

- Sir, keep such thoughts tucked away in your pocket!
Stop this mischief now, be civilized and proper!

- No lover in this world is civilized at all!
If one must be a lover, how can one be proper after all!
Come, let's go to the terrace now. Let my moon meet the moon tonight!
- All right, I'll come, but don't let go my hand! You are such a strange sight!

- Now move that cloth away, let me show you to the moon up there?
- What are you saying?
- Ah, why do you worry? I'm here, I'll stand as a screen with care. You just show it the hollow of your back and that red mole on your breast so fair.
- I showed it, now go! Should I show more then... everything that's there?
- No, no, no! Cover yourself with your veil now, I haven't learned to be so generous and share!
I love you so. Since you are mine, you are no longer only yours to bear. You are mine, mine and mine alone to care!