<Header>
<Author: 白居易>
<Title: 寄明州于...(二)>
<Format: 七言絕句>
<Year: 1971>
<BookName: Translations from Po Chü-I's Collected Works>
<Translator: Levy, Howard S, & Wells, Henry W>
<TranslatedTitle: Sent to Governor Yü Chi-yu ... (second of three poems)>
<BookPage: 648>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 1, 5>
<End Header>
<Poem>
平陽音樂隨都尉
留滯三年在浙東
吳越聲邪無法用
莫教偷入管絃中
<End Poem>
<Translation>
P'ing-yang music
accords with the royal attendant,
where in Che-tung
for three years you stay.
The music of Wu and Yüeh
being lewd and improper,
don't let it
sneak into
those musical sounds.
<End Translation>
<Formatted Translation>
P'ing-yang music accords with the royal attendant,
where in Che-tung for three years you stay.
The music of Wu and Yüeh being lewd and improper,
don't let it sneak into those musical sounds.
<End Formatted Translation>