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Song of Pounding Cloth: The Deep Courtyard Is Still
深院静，
小庭空，
断续寒砧断续风。
The deep courtyard is still, the little garden empty; fitfully the cold fulling-block, fitfully the wind.
无奈夜长人不寐，
数声和月到帘栊。
Helpless: the night is long, and I cannot sleep; a few strokes of sound come with the moon to my blind and window.
Reading notes
砧 is a stone used for beating cloth. The few sounds heard through the night are the intermittent strokes of cloth-beating.