by Gu Kuang (c725 - c814)
Translation by Harold Witter Bynner (1881 - 1968)

宮詞
Language: Chinese (中文) 
玉樓天半起笙歌
風送宮嬪笑語和
月殿影開聞夜漏
水晶簾捲近秋河

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A song of the palace
Language: English  after the Chinese (中文) 
High above, from a jade chamber, songs float half-way to heaven,
The palace-girls' gay voices are mingled with the wind --
But now they are still, and you hear a water-clock drip in the Court of the Moon....
They have opened the curtain wide, they are facing the River of Stars.

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