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七言絕句 張祜 題金陵渡

金陵津渡小山樓, 一宿行人自可愁。
潮落夜江斜月裡, 兩三星火是瓜州。

Seven-character-quatrain
Zhang Hu AT NANJING FERRY

This one-story inn at Nanjing ferry
Is a miserable lodging-place for the night --
But across the dead moon's ebbing tide,
Lights from Guazhou beckon on the river.