Eyes sick – I don’t sleep, don’t join the New Year’s celebrations,
and now, this heart already glutted with feeling, I face spring.
The guttering lamp’s burned itself out and morning light comes
simple enough: just a sixty-year-old man, head calm and clear.
病眼少眠非守岁，老心多感又临春。
火销灯尽天明后，便是平头六十人。
By Bai Juyi
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