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七言絕句 顧況 宮詞

玉樓天半起笙歌, 風送宮嬪笑語和。
月殿影開聞夜漏, 水晶簾捲近秋河。

Seven-character-quatrain
Gu Kuang A PALACE POEM

High above, from a jade chamber, songs float half-way to heaven,
The palace-girls' gay voices are mingled with the wind --
But now they are still, and you hear a water-clock drip in the Court of the Moon....
They have opened the curtain wide, they are facing the River of Stars.