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遣悲怀之三

闲坐悲君亦自悲， 百年都是几多时?

邓攸无子寻知命， 潘岳悼亡犹费词。

同穴窅冥何所望? 他生缘会更难期。

惟将终夜长开眼， 报答平生未展眉。
 

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Yuan Zhen

AN ELEGY III

I sit here alone, mourning for us both.

How many years do I lack now of my threescore and ten?

There have been better men than I to whom heaven denied a son,

There was a poet better than I whose dead wife could not hear him.

What have I to hope for in the darkness of our tomb?

You and I had little faith in a meeting after death-

Yet my open eyes can see all night

That lifelong trouble of your brow