Upper Garrison Farm: A Ballad A Lament for a Woman Killed by the Soldiery by Shih Jun-chang

In the village there is a crying child;
Wail upon wail, it calls for its mother.
Its mother is dead; blood soaks her clothing,
But still she clasps it to her breast to suckle.

translated by William Schultz

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