法東適

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西宮月

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碧桃露湿帯（帶）春寒。
玉漏沈々夜色闌。
愁殺水晶簾外月。
珊瑚枕上獨相看。

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法東適

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Flowering peach trees soaked with dew bearing the chill of spring.
The water clock dripping on and on, the shades of night grow deep.
So very melancholy the moon shining beyond the crystal blinds.
She gazes at it all alone, from her coral pillow.

Line one: A symbol of female beauty and seductiveness, the peach is typically associated with late spring.

Line two: The clepsydra or water clock (漏刻) usually consisted of a copper vessel with a small hole in the bottom out of which water slowly leaked into a catch-basin. As the water seeped away, time could be measured using calibrations on the sides of the vessel. References to such devices are common in boudoir poetry, where time typically hangs heavily on the hands of the neglected pining female subject of the poem.

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