1月3日

浪淘沙
唐 劉禹錫 ( 772~842 )

莫道讒言如浪深，
莫言遷客似沙沉。
千淘萬漉雖辛苦，
吹盡狂沙始到金。

──選自《全唐詩》

January 3rd

Sand-Sifting Waves
Liu Yuxi (772 - 842, Tang Dynasty)
English translation: Miao Guang

Think not that flattery are only deep as waves,
Say not that the exiled are good as sinking sand;
Though the washing and sifting are painstaking,
Once the wild sand blows away, real gold will be revealed.

── from Quan Tang Shi (Complete Collection of Tang Poems)