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Hearing a Flute by Night on the Shouxiang Wall

李益Tang dynastyseven-character quatrain
SOURCE TEXT · 中文原文
回乐峰前沙似雪，
受降城外月如霜。
不知何处吹芦管？
一夜征人尽望乡。
English translation

Hearing a Flute by Night on the Shouxiang Wall

Before Huile Peak the sand is like snow;
beyond the Shouxiang wall the moon is like frost.
No one knows where a reed pipe is being blown—
all night the campaigning men gaze toward home.