The whole poem:
烟笼寒水月笼沙，
夜泊秦淮近酒家。
商女不知亡国恨，
隔江犹唱后庭花。 'Mist veils the cold water, moonlight veils the sand; I moor by night on the Qinhuai, near the taverns. The singing girls, who know nothing of the grief of a fallen state, still sing Flowers of the Rear Court across the river.'
