I've Collected and Arranged My Poems in a Work in Fifteen Chapters. I'm Inscribing this at the End of the Work, and as a Joke Sending Copies to Yüan Ninth and Li Twentieth
That " Song of Everlasting Regret " has a romantic ring;
the ten Ch'in-chung-yin works are close to what poetry ought to be.
Old Yüan goes on stealing my old-poetry style,
but I've got " Little Li " completely dazzled by my songs.
Wealth and eminence will never be my lot in life,
but when I'm gone these writings will surely bring fame.
Don't be startled at the big words and boastful tone —
I've just finished putting together fifteen chapters of my poems!
the ten Ch'in-chung-yin works are close to what poetry ought to be.
Old Yüan goes on stealing my old-poetry style,
but I've got " Little Li " completely dazzled by my songs.
Wealth and eminence will never be my lot in life,
but when I'm gone these writings will surely bring fame.
Don't be startled at the big words and boastful tone —
I've just finished putting together fifteen chapters of my poems!
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