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七言律詩 李商隱 無題

昨夜星辰昨夜風, 畫樓西畔桂堂東。
身無綵鳳雙飛翼, 心有靈犀一點通。
隔座送鉤春酒暖, 分曹射覆蠟燈紅。
嗟余聽鼓應官去, 走馬蘭臺類轉蓬。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Li Shangyin TO ONE UNNAMED

The stars of last night and the wind of last night
Are west of the Painted Chamber and east of Cinnamon Hall.
...Though I have for my body no wings like those of the bright- coloured phoenix,
Yet I feel the harmonious heart-beat of the Sacred Unicorn.
Across the spring-wine, while it warms me, I prompt you how to bet
Where, group by group, we are throwing dice in the light of a crimson lamp;
Till the rolling of a drum, alas, calls me to my duties
And I mount my horse and ride away, like a water-plant cut adrift.