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The Beauty Yu: Green Peaches Planted in Heaven with Dew
碧桃天上栽和露，
不是凡花数。
乱山深处水萦回，
可惜一枝如画为谁开？
A heavenly peach tree planted with the dew — no bloom of the common kind. Deep among the tangled hills the water winds away; pity that one spray fair as a painting should bloom — for whom?
轻寒细雨情何限！
不道春难管。
为君沉醉又何妨，
只怕酒醒时候断人肠。
A light chill and fine rain: how can feeling be held within bounds? Yet spring is so hard to hold. To be drunk for your sake, what harm in that? I fear only waking from wine, at the hour that breaks a man's heart.
Reading notes
The peach blossom can be read both as a flower and as an image of a person. 数 in 凡花数 means a category or rank and is read shù. 一枝 also appears as 一支; this page retains 枝. 为 in 为谁 and 为君 is read wèi.