Hong lou meng: Wan shao hua 紅楼梦：晚韶华
by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹 (ca. 1715–ca. 1763)
Dynasty: Qing 清 (1644–1911)
Included in: Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹. Gao E 高鶚 (ed.). Hongloumeng 红楼梦 Beijing: Renmin wenxue chubanshe, 1973. 63.
Translations
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David Hawkes (1923–2007): A Dream of Golden Days: Eleventh Song: Splendour Come Late
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in: Hawkes, David. The Story of the Stone: Volume 1: The Golden Days. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978. p. 143f. -
Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 (1919–1999) and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益 (1915–2009): Dream of Red Mansions: Twelfth Song: Splendour Comes Too Late
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in: Yang Gladys 戴乃迭 and Yang Xianyi 杨宪益. A Dream of Red Mansions: Volume 1. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1978. p. 83.
鏡里恩情，更那堪梦里功名！ 那美韶华去之何迅！再休提綉帐鴛衾。 只这戴珠冠，披风袄，也抵不了无常性命。 虽說是，人生莫受老来貧，也須要阴隲积儿孙。 气昂昂，头戴簪纓，光灿灿，胸悬金印，威赫赫，爵祿高登，—— 昏慘慘，黃泉路近！問古来将相可还存？ 也只是虛名儿后人欽敬。