Bai Juyi

“ Without lameness or fault. Why should you not use the colt's strength
To replace your sick legs? Why should you not use my song to gladden your casual cup? Need you in one morning send both away,
Send them away never to return? This is what Su would say to you before she goes, And this is what your horse meant also
When he neighed at the gate. Seeing my distress, who am a woman, And hearing its cries, that is but a horse, Shall our master alone remain pitiless?"
I looked up and sighed: I looked down and laughed. Then I said:
"Dear horse, stop your sad cries! ”

“ He had too a white horse with black mane, sturdy and sure-footed, which he had ridden for many years. It stood on the list of things which could be dispensed with, and was to be sold. When the groom led the horse through the gate, it tossed its head and looked back, neighing once with a sound in its voice that seemed to say: "I know I am leaving you and long to stay." Su, when she heard the horse neigh, rose timidly, bowed before me and spoke sweetly, as shall hereafter be shown. ”

“ Without shying, without bolting. And I have served you for ten years,
Three thousand and six hundred days; Patient carrier of towel and comb, [2]
Without complaint, without loss. And now, though my shape is lowly,
I am still fresh and strong. ”