Newswascutoffbetweenthetwoworlds Asbetweenthelivingandthedead. Noonehascomeuponafaithfulhorseguarding Acrumpledtentortornflag,oranytraceofyou. IfonlyIknew,Imightserveyouinthetemple, Insteadofthesetea
News was cut off between the two worlds
As between the living and the dead.
No one has come upon a faithful horse guarding
A crumpled tent or torn flag, or any trace of you.
If only I knew, I might serve you in the temple,
Instead of these tears toward the far sky.
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白居易
赋得古原草送别
离离原上草, 一岁一枯荣。
野火烧不尽, 春风吹又生。
远芳侵古道, 晴翠接荒城。
又送王孙去, 萋萋满别情。
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Bai Juyi
GRASSES
Boundless grasses over the plain
Come and go with every season;
Wildfire never quite consumes them --
They are tall once more in the spring wind.
Sweet they press on the old high- road
And reach the crumbling city-gate....
O Prince of Friends, you are gone again....
I hear them sighing after you.
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杜牧
旅宿
旅馆无良伴, 凝情自悄然。
寒灯思旧事, 断雁警愁眠。
远梦归侵晓, 家书到隔年。
沧江好烟月, 门系钓鱼船。
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Du Mu
A NIGHT AT A TAVERN
Solitary at the tavern,
I am shut in with loneliness and grief.
Under the cold lamp, I brood on the past;
I am kept awake by a lost wildgoose.
...Roused at dawn from a misty dream,
I read, a year late, news from home --
And I remember the moon like smoke on the river
And a fisher-boat moored there, under my door.
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