Couplets: Disappointed Year After Year, Year After Year, My Hope's Still Fierce 年年失望年年望 處處難尋處處尋 Poem by Frank Yue

A Distressing Couplet attributed to a failed, suicidal student changed to a positive one
- 郭沫若 Guō Mòruò （1892 -1978)
- Translated by Frank C Yue


少女絕筆聯

年年失望年年望，

處處難尋處處尋。

(橫批) 春在那裏？



[Original Couplet 1]:

Disappointed year after year,
Year after year, my hope's still fierce.

Everywhere it is hard to find;
I still try everywhere to find (what's mine) !

Where is Spring?



年年失望年年望，

事事難成事事成。

(橫批) 春在心中


[Response Couplet 2]:

Disappointed year after year,
Year after year, my hope's still fierce.

It's hard to achieve everything,
But then, once achieved, everything takes wing!

Spring's in the heart!