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A CICADA
---Li Shangyin

Pure of heart and therefore hungry,
All night long you have sung in vain --
Oh, this final broken indrawn breath
Among the green indifferent trees!
Yes, I have gone like a piece of driftwood,
I have let my garden fill with weeds....
I bless you for your true advice
To live as pure a life as yours.

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GRASSES
 ---Bai Juyi

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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AT HERON LODGE
---Wang Zhihuan

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AT HERON LODGE Wang Zhihuan
Mountains cover the white sun,
And oceans drain the golden river;
But you widen your view three hundred miles
By going up one flight of stairs.

五言绝句    登鹳雀楼
---王之涣

白日依山尽， 黄河入海流。
欲穷千里目， 更上一层楼。
 

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THE LEYOU TOMBS
---Li Shangyin

With twilight shadows in my heart
I have driven up among the Leyou Tombs
To see the sun, for all his glory,
Buried by the coming night.

五言绝句  登乐游原①
---李商隐

向晚意不适，驱车登古原②。
夕阳无限好，只是近黄昏。
 

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BORDER-SONGS II
 ---Lu Lun

The woods are black and a wind assails the grasses,
Yet the general tries night archery --
And next morning he finds his white-plumed arrow
Pointed deep in the hard rock.

乐府   塞下曲四首之二
---卢纶

林暗草惊风， 将军夜引弓。
平明寻白羽， 没在石棱中。