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Sitting By The Water

Bai Juyi 722-846    Once a sojourner within east palace walls, now member of a religious group of the Western Region-- a willow branch in hand, I sit by the water quitely recalling past affairs--as though from a former existence.

Lín Shuǐ Zuò

Bái Jūyì 722-846 Xī wéi dōng yèyuán zhōng kè, Jīn zuò xīfāng shè nèi rén. Shǒu bǎ yáng zhī lín shuǐ Xián sī wǎngshì sì qián shēn.

Translator:

Burton Watson 華茲生

Notes: From Burton Watson's book of translations of Bai Juyi poems; Po Chu-I Selected Poems, Columbia University Press

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