Their tender feelings seem like water; Their happy time, a dream. How can she bear to look at the road back across the Magpie Bridge? If a couple's love were this imperishable What need they be together day and night, nitht and day?
「柔情似水」，敘兩情之綢繆；「佳期如夢」，敘牛郎織女相聚之甜美與短暫；「忍顧鵲橋歸路」，敘其依戀難捨之情。