Night on the Surrender City Hearing a Flute

夜上受降城聞笛 · Three Hundred Tang Poems

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English translation 中文原文

Before the Hui-le Peak, the sands are like snow;

Over the Shou-xiang Fortress, the moon is like frost.

From somewhere a reed pipe is blown;

All night the soldiers turn their eyes toward home.

夜上受降城聞笛

回樂峰一作「烽」前沙似雪，受降城下一作「上」，一作「外」月如霜。

不知何處吹蘆管一作「笛」，一夜征人盡望鄉。