蝉(虞世南)

垂緌饮清露,流响出疏桐。

居高声自远,非是藉秋风。

TO THE CICADA

Though rising high, you drink but dew;

Yet your voice flows from sparse plane trees.

Far and wide there's none but hears you;

You need no wings of autumn breeze.
 
 
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