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竹外桃花三兩枝，
Behind bamboo two or three sprays of peach-tree grow,
春江水暖鴨先知。
When spring has warmed the stream, ducks are the first to know.
萎蒿滿地蘆芽短，
The land o'errun by weeds and water studd'd with reeds,
正是河豚欲上時。
It is time when globefish to swim upstream proceeds.