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杜甫
春宿左省
花隱掖垣暮， 啾啾棲鳥過。
星臨萬戶動， 月傍九霄多。
不寢聽金鑰， 因風想玉珂。
明朝有封事， 數問夜如何。
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Du Fu
A NIGHT-VIGIL IN THE LEFT COURT OF THE PALACE
Flowers are shadowed, the palace darkens,
Birds twitter by for a place to perch;
Heaven’s ten thousand windows are twinkling,
And nine cloud-terraces are gleaming in the moonlight.
…While I wait for the golden lock to turn,
I hear jade pendants tinkling in the wind….
I have a petition to present in the morning,
All night I ask what time it is.
