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七言律詩 元稹 遣悲懷之三

閑坐悲君亦自悲, 百年都是幾多時?
鄧攸無子尋知命, 潘岳悼亡猶費詞。
同穴窅冥何所望? 他生緣會更難期。
惟將終夜長開眼, 報答平生未展眉。

Seven-character-regular-verse
Yuan Zhen AN ELEGY III

I sit here alone, mourning for us both.
How many years do I lack now of my threescore and ten?
There have been better men than I to whom heaven denied a son,
There was a poet better than I whose dead wife could not hear him.
What have I to hope for in the darkness of our tomb?
You and I had little faith in a meeting after death -
Yet my open eyes can see all night
That lifelong trouble of your brow.