张旭诗

Poems of Zhang Xu


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清溪泛舟

Clear Stream, Afloat in a Boat


旅人倚征棹
薄暮起劳歌
笑揽清溪月
清辉不厌多

Wanderers lean hard on their oars and,
in the dusk, they sing a sailor's song.
Laughing, I throw a rope around the moon in the river.
In this clear radiance, even I'm not bored.

-- 张旭


废话

Zhang Xu, with Henry Thoreau, is high on my list of people to take a canoe trip with. People like that take their pleasure seriously enough to get some good out of it. Note that both sing sailor's songs when working an oar. I, too, can sing.


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