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自娱自乐

風吹仙袂飄飄舉，
猶似霓裳羽衣舞。
玉容寂寞淚闌干，
梨花一枝春帶雨。

Her fairy sleeves were billowing in wind so elegant,
As if she was dancing her Rainbow and Feather Raiment.
Yet loneliness imprinted on her pretty face with tearstains,
Like a pear blossom was drenched in spring rains.


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自娱自乐

含情凝睇謝君王，
一別音容兩渺茫。
昭陽殿裡恩愛絕，
蓬萊宮中日月長。

She thanked the emperor with affections in her eye,
Since parting, his voice and visage had never been nigh.
Their passionate love in Zhaoyang palace was long over,
Yet her life in Penglai temple would be forever and ever.


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自娱自乐

回頭下望人寰處，
不見長安見塵霧。
唯將舊物表深情，
鈿合金釵寄將去。

She turned and gazed down at this human world,
Nothing like Changan in sight but mist and dust swirled.
To show her deep feelings she took out old gifts as a token,
And then a gold hairpin and an inlaid box were chosen.


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釵留一股合一扇，
釵擘黃金合分鈿。
但教心似金鈿堅，
天上人間會相見。

She'd send emperor part of the box and the hairpin,  
As she split the box in half as well as the gold pin.
If our love could be like the box and the gold that strong,
We'd reunite in heaven or elsewhere in the world however long.


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自娱自乐

Well, nearly over, hehehe,

自娱自乐

Now I'd like to take some rest before working on the last part of this bloody long poem, hehehe

自娱自乐

臨別殷勤重寄詞，
詞中有誓兩心知，
七月七日長生殿，
夜半無人私語時。

When parting, she asked the Taoist to take back a couplet.
Only the emperor and she knew the solemn vow hidden in it.
On the seventh of seventh moon in Longevity hall at midnight,
They once pledged to each other when no one else was in sight.

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在天願作比翼鳥，
在地願為連理枝。
天長地久有時盡，
此恨綿綿無絕期。

“In the sky we'd like to be the birds flying side by side.”
“On earth we'd like to be the trees inseverably tied.”
The heaven and earth, however immortal, may end one day,
Yet only this very regret would never ever go away.


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自娱自乐

Ok, finally finished, so now I'd like to seize this very moment to thank yishi for his encouragement, whithout which I am pretty sure I would have terribly missed the golden opportunity to appreciate this epoch-making poem.

And I'd also thank Mr. Iron for his 'harsh' nit-picking, which is quite essential for my work. Thank you, Mr. Iron!

Last but not least, I'd like to give my big thank-you to Mr. Wuxinjian for his support and true friendship, without which I don't think I would've sustained.

Many thanks to all of you!

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