by Bai Juyi (772 - 846)
廢琴
Language: Chinese (中文)
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絲桐合為琴， 中有太古聲。 古聲澹無味， 不稱今人情。 玉徽光彩滅， 朱弦塵土生。 廢棄來已久， 遺音尚泠泠。 不辭為君彈， 縱彈人不聽。 何物使之然， 羌笛與秦箏。
Confirmed with Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.). Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985.
Text Authorship:
- by Bai Juyi (772 - 846), "廢琴" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in English, a translation by Arthur Waley (1889 - 1969) , "The Old Harp", appears in A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, first published 1918 ; composed by Benjamin Britten.
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