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Poetry · seven-character quatrain

Red Cliff

杜牧Tang dynastyseven-character quatrain
SOURCE TEXT · 中文原文
折戟沈沙铁未销,
自将磨洗认前朝。
东风不与周郎便,
铜雀春深销二乔。
English translation

Red Cliff

A broken halberd sunk in sand, its iron not yet eaten away;
I take it up myself, grind and wash it, and identify an earlier dynasty.
Had the east wind not favored young Zhou,
deep spring in the Bronze Sparrow Tower would have shut away the two Qiao.