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七言古詩 岑參 白雪歌送武判官歸京

北風捲地白草折, 胡天八月即飛雪;
忽如一夜春風來, 千樹萬樹梨花開。
散入珠簾濕羅幕, 狐裘不煖錦衾薄。
將軍角弓不得控, 都護鐵衣冷猶著。
瀚海闌干百丈冰, 愁雲黲淡萬里凝。
中軍置酒飲歸客, 胡琴琵琶與羌笛。
紛紛暮雪下轅門, 風掣紅旗凍不翻。
輪臺東門送君去, 去時雪滿天山路;
山迴路轉不見君, 雪上空留馬行處。

Seven-character-ancient-verse
Cen Can A SONG OF WHITE SNOW IN FAREWELL
TO FIELD-CLERK WU GOING HOME

The north wind rolls the white grasses and breaks them;
And the Eighth-month snow across the Tartar sky
Is like a spring gale, come up in the night,
Blowing open the petals of ten thousand peartrees.
It enters the pearl blinds, it wets the silk curtains;
A fur coat feels cold, a cotton mat flimsy;
Bows become rigid, can hardly be drawn
And the metal of armour congeals on the men;
The sand-sea deepens with fathomless ice,
And darkness masses its endless clouds;
But we drink to our guest bound home from camp,
And play him barbarian lutes, guitars, harps;
Till at dusk, when the drifts are crushing our tents
And our frozen red flags cannot flutter in the wind,
We watch him through Wheel-Tower Gate going eastward.
Into the snow-mounds of Heaven-Peak Road....
And then he disappears at the turn of the pass,
Leaving behind him only hoof-prints.