这是一首拟古的思妇词，但下片的比拟却能多少翻出一些新意来，其温柔敦厚处，尤令人怆然动容。

晚唐杜苟鹤 春闺怨　诗：“朝喜花艳春，暮悲花委尘。

不悲花落早，悲妾似花身。

”杜苟鹤末两句虽未怨天尤人，然犹有怨恨之意。

本词却是一味温柔。

临江仙　 王国维闻说金微郎戌处，昨宵梦向金微；不知今又过辽西：千屯沙上暗，万骑月中嘶。

郎似梅花侬似叶，怯来手抚空枝。

可怜开谢不同时，漫言花落早，只是叶生迟。

Tune: "Immortal at the River"I heard my love was gone on garrison at Chin-wei Mountain (1).

Last night my dream took me there,Not knowing that he had gone already to Liao-hsi (2),Where the sky darkens over a thousand camps on the sandAnd ten thousand horses neigh beneath the moon.

My love is like a plum blossom and I am the leaf,But all I can caress is a barren branch.

I mourn that flowers go and leaves bud at different times;Don't say that flowers fall before their time:It's only the leaves that grow too late.

(1) In present Mongolia.

(2) Referring to the area from the present Hopei province to the Liaotung peninsula.

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