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Crows Crying at Night: Last Night Wind and Rain
昨夜风兼雨，
帘帏飒飒秋声。
烛残漏断频欹枕，
起坐不能平。
Last night the wind came with the rain; the curtains rustled with the sound of autumn. The candle gutters, the water-clock runs down; I shift upon the pillow again and again, sit up, and cannot find calm.
世事漫随流水，
算来一梦浮生。
醉乡路稳宜频到，
此外不堪行。
The affairs of the world drift away with the flowing water; reckoned up, a life is but one dream. The road to drunkenness is safe — it is fit to travel often; beyond it, I cannot bear to go.
Reading notes
一梦 also appears as 梦里; this page retains 一梦. The closing line presents a speaker unable to bear the world beyond the refuge of intoxication.