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五言絕句 張祜 何滿子

故國三千里, 深宮二十年。
一聲何滿子, 雙淚落君前。

Five-character-quatrain
Zhang Hu SHE SINGS AN OLD SONG

A lady of the palace these twenty years,
She has lived here a thousand miles from her home -
Yet ask her for this song and, with the first few words of it,
See how she tries to hold back her tears.