2018 推句 59 - 60

Original Script

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59.

文章李太白이요

筆法王羲之라.

一日不讀書면

口中生荊棘이라.

60.

花有重開日이나

人無更少年이라.

白日莫虛送하라

靑春不再來니라.

Translation

Poem 59 : Kathy Lin

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For letters, there’s Li Tai Bai ¹

For calligraphy, Wang Xi Zhi. ²

A day without reading,

The mouth grows thorns and thistles.

Notes: 1. Li Tai Bai was a pre-eminent Tang Dynasty poet (701 -762 AD)

2. Wang Xi Zhi (303 - 361 AD) was a famed calligrapher

• Discussion Questions:

Poem 60 : Petra Sváková

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Flowers, [they] have a day [when they] blossom again;

People, [they] do not have a year [when they are] younger again.

Daytime, do not send away in vain;

Youth, does not come back again.

• Discussion Questions:

+ I am not very sure about the translation of the third line - "白日莫虛送", I feel like there is something missing.