“Friends on pipa, poetry and drinking all of them cast me away. When I see the snow, the moon or blossoms, I long for you deeply.”

— Bai Juyi

「寄殷律協」[citation needed]
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琴詩酒友皆抛我雪月花時最憶君

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Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty 772–846

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