Tan shi xiao wai sun yu tong 談氏小外孫玉童

by Bai Juyi 白居易 (772–846)

Dynasty: Tang 唐 (618–907)

Year of creation: 842

Included in: Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.). Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems) Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985. 459.2533.

Translations

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外翁七十孫三歲,笑指琴書欲遣傳。 自念老夫今耄矣,因思稚子更茫然。 中郎餘慶鍾羊祜,子幼能文似馬遷。 才與不才爭料得,東床空後且嬌憐。 (談氏初逝。)