Stick #18
Cuckoo's Lament
CautionPoem
The cuckoo weeps tears of blood in mournful cry,
Its plaint pierces frost-chilled dreams with sudden sigh.
Startling the wanderer in lands so far and wide,
His heart now aches for homeland left behind.
杜鵑啼血淚悲聲
聲怨霜寒夢乍驚
驚動異鄉為異客
客心更觸故園情
Interpretation
The cuckoo's blood-tinged cries carry such sorrow that they startle dreamers awake, stirring deep homesickness. This ominous sign suggests misfortune likely outweighs good. Exercise extreme caution in all matters, cultivate virtue to transform ill fortune, and guard against malicious gossip from petty people.
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