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七言絕句 杜牧 贈別之一

娉娉嫋嫋十三餘, 豆蔻梢頭二月初。
春風十里揚州路, 卷上珠簾總不如。

Seven-character-quatrain
Du Mu PARTING I

She is slim and supple and not yet fourteen,
The young spring-tip of a cardamon-spray.
On the Yangzhou Road for three miles in the breeze
Every pearl-screen is open. But there's no one like her.