This evening a storm of wind and rain washed away the blazing heat. Having finished playing the flute, facing a caltrop mirror she lightly dabs on makeup. Beneath purple thin silk her ice-like skin glimmers, luster of snow, milky and fragrant. Smiling, she tells her beloved, “Tonight, the mat and pillow behind the gauze bed-curtain should be cool.”
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晚來一陣風兼雨
洗盡炎光。
理罷笙簧。
却對菱花淡淡妝。
絳綃縷薄冰肌瑩
雪膩酥香。
笑語檀郎。
今夜紗廚枕簟涼。
To the tune “The Vile Charmer”
This evening a storm of wind and rain washed away the blazing heat. Having finished playing the flute,
facing a caltrop mirror she lightly dabs on makeup.
Beneath purple thin silk her ice-like skin glimmers, luster of snow, milky and fragrant. Smiling, she tells her beloved,
“Tonight, the mat and pillow behind the gauze bed-curtain should be cool.”