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Originally Posted by Jonas06
That does help.  Thank you!
This still confuses me though. As you mentioned it is just two lines of the poem. I learned that there are two preceding lines before the latter two that you kindly translated for me. Is this a common practice, or is the work I have the second half of a series? |
In this case, I would say the one who wrote you this calligraphy love these two lines so he/she quoted it out. And actually these 2 lines are the core of the poem. Generally people clearly remember the "core" of the poem but forget the rest
Just like me, I never remember how to write the first 2 lines of this poem.
It's pretty common to quote a line or 2 from a poem when people doing calligraphy.