Around the building throughout the day,These joyful guests convene on beamsWith songs that carry auspicious signs,Arriving through the curtained screens. Sunset guides them down to town for rest,But dawn will draw them to the river streams,Until they reach the swans assembled together,Watching them soar, as in …
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Hugging the path in early springWe walk here hand in hand;Though grass has yet to spring to life,To me it’s fresh-laid land. Nothing to do, pursuing the blooms,The willows have taught my mind:Again and again I come and goTo savor a cup of wine. Original poem in …
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The River Chu has split the hills in twoTo send the jade-brushed water east and back,Around the two opposing hills anewAs a lonely boat sits still in a sunlit crack. Original Chinese poem by Li Bai
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