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" "No orioles yet on willows—you set out
and promised you'd come back when cuckoos sang.
Cuckoos have followed orioles grown old—
before the house some swallows chirp and peep.
Đặng Trần Côn (Chinese: 鄧陳琨; born Trần Côn; c.1710–1745) was the author of the Chinh phụ ngâm, a masterpiece of chữ Hán literature of Vietnam.
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