If We Were Not To Meet ---Translatedby Xu Jingcheng (许景城)
If we were not to meet, we would not fall in love;
If we were not in acquaintance, we would not be drowned in lovesickness;
If we were not in company, we would not mutually owe;
If we were not to cherish, we would not recall;
If we were not to fall in love, we would not mutually abandon;
If we were not face to face, we would not meet;
If we were not to hurt, we would not fail to be loyal;
If we were not to promise, our love would not continue;
Albeit, ever to meet is to know! If ever is assuch, better not to meet.
Alas! Howcould I part with you eternally, thus not in the gyre of endless lovesickness?
If we were not to meet, we would not fall in love;
If we were not in acquaintance, we would not be drowned in lovesickness;
If we were not in company, we would not mutually owe;
If we were not to cherish, we would not recall;
If we were not to depend, we would not snuggle;
If we were not to encounter, we would not be in reunion.