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五言絕句 李端 聽箏

鳴箏金粟柱, 素手玉房前。
欲得周郎顧, 時時誤拂絃。

Five-character-quatrain
Li Duan ON HEARING HER PLAY THE HARP

Her hands of white jade by a window of snow
Are glimmering on a golden-fretted harp --
And to draw the quick eye of Chou Yu,
She touches a wrong note now and then.