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五言古诗
王维
西施咏
艳色天下重， 西施宁久微？
朝为越溪女， 暮作吴宫妃。
贱日岂殊众？ 贵来方悟稀。
邀人傅脂粉， 不自著罗衣，
君宠益娇态， 君怜无是非。
当时浣纱伴， 莫得同车归。
持谢邻家子， 效颦安可希？
Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
THE BEAUTIFUL XI SHI
Since beauty is honoured all over the Empire,
How could Xi Shi remain humbly at home? --
Washing clothes at dawn by a southern lake --
And that evening a GREat lady in a palace of the north:
Lowly one day, no different from the others,
The next day exalted, everyone praising her.
No more would her own hands powder her face
Or arrange on her shoulders a silken robe.
And the more the King loved her, the lovelier she looked,
Blinding him away from wisdom.
...Girls who had once washed silk beside her
Were kept at a distance from her chariot.
And none of the girls in her neighbours' houses
By pursing their brows could copy her beauty.
