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七言絕句 杜牧 遣懷

落魄江湖載酒行, 楚腰纖細掌中輕。
十年一覺揚州夢, 贏得青樓薄倖名。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu A CONFESSION

With my wine-bottle, watching by river and lake
For a lady so tiny as to dance on my palm,
I awake, after dreaming ten years in Yangzhou,
Known as fickle, even in the Street of Blue Houses.