Hanpu Li 李函璞

To the tune of Zhegutian · Waiting for a carriage at the second watch, about to stay the night in another house and keep the cat company

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First written

《鷓鴣天 · 二更候車,將宿他舍伴狸奴》

片札含霜到齒牙,青驄待發果盈車。 點來四五聊充策,大衍分蓍一未加。 呵作霧,燼成花。輿中欹復正疑斜。 筋骸暗替君搖首,載過當停處已賒。

To the tune of Zhegutian · Waiting for a carriage at the second watch, about to stay the night in another house and keep the cat company

A slip of a note, holding frost, reaches the teeth; the blue-grey horse waits to set out, and fruit fills the carriage. Four or five, counted out, serve for now as divining stalks; according to the Great Expansion, the yarrow is divided, and the one stalk has not been put in. Breath turns to mist. The burnt wick forms a flower. In the carriage, tilting, upright again, as if aslant. Unseen, sinew and bone shake the head in your stead; carried past the place to stop, and already it lies far off.