鄭板橋 百尺高梧 撐得起一輪明月 The hundred-feet-tall phoenix tree props up high the bright Moon round

清 • 鄭板橋 書齋親提對聯

百尺高梧，撐得起一輪明月。
數椽矮屋，鎖不住午夜書聲。


Couplet Written by Zheng Banqiao for His Own Study
-- by Zheng Banqiao (Qing dynasty) 
-- Translated by Frank C Yue

The hundred-feet-tall phoenix tree props up 
                              high the bright Moon round;
Several short houses can't lock in the mid-night                                                          recital sound.

comment from an old blog:

philip2008:

讀此聯句想起 宋倪思 句：

松聲、涧聲、山禽声、夜虫聲、鹤聲、琴聲、棋子落聲、雨滴阶聲、
雪洒窗聲、煎茶聲，皆聲之至清者也，而读书声为最。