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五言律詩 白居易 賦得古原草送別

離離原上草, 一歲一枯榮。
野火燒不盡, 春風吹又生。
遠芳侵古道, 晴翠接荒城。
又送王孫去, 萋萋滿別情。

Five-character-regular-verse
Bai Juyi GRASSES

Boundless grasses over the plain
Come and go with every season;
Wildfire never quite consumes them --
They are tall once more in the spring wind.
Sweet they press on the old high- road
And reach the crumbling city-gate....
O Prince of Friends, you are gone again....
I hear them sighing after you.