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Moonlit Night, Liu Fangping (Tang Shi #275)
Saturday, 27 July 2019 22:33The late night moonlight shines on only half the courtyard—
Big Dipper is oblique, South Dipper’s slanting down.
I suddenly know tonight the spring air’s warming up:
The sounds of insects now come through the green window screen.
月夜
更深月色半人家，
北斗阑干南斗斜。
今夜偏知春气暖，
虫声新透绿窗沙。
Half the courtyard because the moon is low enough behind the walls. The Southern Dipper is a Chinese constellation roughly corresponding to Sagittarius, which makes it a winter sky thing, now setting.
—L.
Big Dipper is oblique, South Dipper’s slanting down.
I suddenly know tonight the spring air’s warming up:
The sounds of insects now come through the green window screen.
月夜
更深月色半人家，
北斗阑干南斗斜。
今夜偏知春气暖，
虫声新透绿窗沙。
Half the courtyard because the moon is low enough behind the walls. The Southern Dipper is a Chinese constellation roughly corresponding to Sagittarius, which makes it a winter sky thing, now setting.
—L.