白居易诗
Poems of Bai Juyi
Index
白鹭
White Egrets
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人生四十未全衰 我为愁多白发垂 何故水边双白鹭 无愁头上亦垂丝 |
Forty years of life and not completely worn out, Not worrying about more than these few white hairs. By the waterside, a pair of white egrets. Why when carefree have they both turned white? |
-- 白居易
废话
Bai Juyi turns forty in 812. From this point on, he worries on and off about getting old, about retiring, about stuff. You worry more as you get older, if you don't think about better things. He lives another 34 years, takes a bad fall from a horse in his sixties, doesn't retire until actually forced to at 70. He works at his poetry until he is gone. He does okay.