**Giấc Trưa Hạ Nở Huy-Hoàng********
**********Hoàng-Ân**************
nụ hoa nắng vơ¬ bực thềm
lóa nhòa cánh phượng nở tung đỉnh trời
ve rền xé vạt âm-ba
Hạ nồng liếc gió, mềm da, chéo hờ.
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WILLIAM THOMPSON (1712-1766)
THE HAPPY LIFE
A book, a friend, a song, a glass,
A chaste, yet laughter-loving lass,
To mortals various joys impart,
Inform the sense, and warm the heart.
Thrice happy they, who careless laid
Beneath a kind-embowering shade,
With rosy wreaths their temples crown,
In rosy wine their sorrow drown.
Begone, ambition, riches, toys,
And splendid cares, and guilty joys--
Give me a book, a friend, a glass,
And a chaste, laughter-loving lass.
