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七言絕句 韋莊 金陵圖

江雨霏霏江草齊, 六朝如夢鳥空啼。
無情最是臺城柳, 依舊煙籠十里堤。

Seven-character-quatrain
Wei Zhuang A NANJING LANDSCAPE

Though a shower bends the river-grass, a bird is singing,
While ghosts of the Six Dynasties pass like a dream
Around the Forbidden City, under weeping willows
Which loom still for three miles along the misty moat.