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七言絕句 韋應物 滁州西澗

獨憐幽草澗邊生, 上有黃鸝深樹鳴。
春潮帶雨晚來急, 野渡無人舟自橫。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wei Yingwu AT CHUZHOU ON THE WESTERN STREAM

Where tender grasses rim the stream
And deep boughs trill with mango-birds,
On the spring flood of last night's rain
The ferry-boat moves as though someone were poling.