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樂府

沈佺期

古意呈補闕喬知之

盧家少婦郁金香， 海燕雙栖玳瑁梁。
九月寒砧催木葉， 十年征戍憶遼陽。
白狼河北音書斷， 丹鳳城南秋夜長。
誰為含愁獨不見， 更教明月照流黃。

Folk-song-styled-verse

Shen Quanqi

BEYOND SEEING

A girl of the Lu clan who lives in Golden-Wood Hall,
Where swallows perch in pairs on beams of tortoiseshell,
Hears the washing-mallets' cold beat shake the leaves down.
...The Liaoyang expedition will be gone ten years,
And messages are lost in the White Wolf River.
...Here in the City of the Red Phoenix autumn nights are long,
Where one who is heart-sick to see beyond seeing,
Sees only moonlight on the yellow-silk wave of her loom.