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七言律詩 溫庭筠 蘇武廟

蘇武魂銷漢使前, 古祠高樹兩茫然。
雲邊雁斷胡天月, 隴上羊歸塞草煙。
迴日樓臺非甲帳, 去時冠劍是丁年。
茂陵不見封侯印, 空向秋波哭逝川。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Wen Tingyun THE TEMPLE OF SU WU

Though our envoy, Su Wu, is gone, body and soul,
This temple survives, these trees endure....
Wildgeese through the clouds are still calling to the moon there
And hill-sheep unshepherded graze along the border.
...Returning, he found his country changed
Since with youthful cap and sword he had left it.
His bitter adventures had won him no title....
Autumn-waves endlessly sob in the river.