鳴箏金粟柱，素手玉房前。

欲得周郎顧，時時誤拂弦。

A Five-Character Quatrain by Li Duan of Tang Dynasty 

(Drinking in Zither Music)

Sings her zither decked with gold bling,  

To which her deft fair fingers cling.   

Attempting to attract her beau,

She now and then plucks a wrong string.

Tr. Ziyuzile

(To be revised)