by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)

月下獨酌四首（其四）
Language: Chinese (中文) 
窮愁千萬端，
美酒三百杯。
愁多酒雖少，
酒傾愁不來。
所以知酒聖，
酒酣心自開。
辭粟臥首陽，
屢空飢顏回。
當代不樂飲，
虛名安用哉。
蟹螯即金液，
糟丘是蓬萊。
且須飲美酒，
乘月醉高臺。

Confirmed with Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.). Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985.


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