A Labourer Changed [Chinese translation]

A labourer day by day piles one brick upon the other

Until his ardious task is complete with the pride of his work

The propriator of this palace invites a feast to the brother

Upon the evenings tidings where joy does in turn lurk

Clad in fine garments the labourer presents himself

Covered with debris of work, no evidence of gentry

His tongue roams in dismayed ways without stealth

Until his body is hastenly extracted by the sentry