BY WANG WEI
Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River,I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream,Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings.We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred _li_.We are in the midst of a noise of water,Of the confused and mingled sounds of water broken by stones,And in the deep darkness of pine-trees.Rocked, rocked,Moving on and on,We float past water-chestnutsInto a still clearness reflecting reeds and rushes.My heart is clean and white as silk; it has already achieved Peace;It is smooth as the placid river.I long to stay here, curled up on the rocks,Dropping my fish-line forever.
Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River,I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream,Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings.We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred _li_.We are in the midst of a noise of water,Of the confused and mingled sounds of water broken by stones,And in the deep darkness of pine-trees.Rocked, rocked,Moving on and on,We float past water-chestnutsInto a still clearness reflecting reeds and rushes.My heart is clean and white as silk; it has already achieved Peace;It is smooth as the placid river.I long to stay here, curled up on the rocks,Dropping my fish-line forever.
Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River,I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream,Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings.We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred _li_.We are in the midst of a noise of water,Of the confused and mingled sounds of water broken by stones,And in the deep darkness of pine-trees.Rocked, rocked,Moving on and on,We float past water-chestnutsInto a still clearness reflecting reeds and rushes.My heart is clean and white as silk; it has already achieved Peace;It is smooth as the placid river.I long to stay here, curled up on the rocks,Dropping my fish-line forever.
Every time I have started for the Yellow Flower River,
I have gone down the Blue-Green Stream,
Following the hills, making ten thousand turnings.
We go along rapidly, but advance scarcely one hundred _li_.
We are in the midst of a noise of water,
Of the confused and mingled sounds of water broken by stones,
And in the deep darkness of pine-trees.
Rocked, rocked,
Moving on and on,
We float past water-chestnuts
Into a still clearness reflecting reeds and rushes.
My heart is clean and white as silk; it has already achieved Peace;
It is smooth as the placid river.
I long to stay here, curled up on the rocks,
Dropping my fish-line forever.