A Chinese translation request

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A Chinese translation request

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Hello.

I would be very glad if any of you could translate following fragment into English (also, glosses/other grammatical notes would be nice).

忽如一夜春风来,
千树万树梨花开。
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.

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忽如一夜春风来,
Hū rú yīyè chūn fēng lái,
sudden like one night spring wind come
千树万树梨花开
qiān shù wàn shù líhuā kāi
1000 tree 10,000 tree pear flower open

"As if a spring gale, came up in the night,
Blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees."

From a poem ("Song of White Snow in Farewell to Secretary Wu Returning to the Capital") by the Táng poet 岑参 Cén Shēn.

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Thanks, Zomp.
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.

If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.

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