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Overlooking Dongting Lake--For Prime Minister Zhang

Meng Haoran 689-740  In September the lake is so flat The great hollow joins the celestial void Vapors rise from Cloud Dream Marsh The waves rock Yueyang walls But there's no boat to take me across And retirement is shameful in a golden age Sitting watching other people fish To covet their catch is vain

Lín Dōngtínghú Zèng Zhāng Chéngxiàng

Mèng Hàorán 689-740 Bāyuè húshuǐ píng, Hán xū hùn tài qīng. Qìzhēng Yúnmèng zé, Bō hàn Yuèyángchéng. Yù jì wú zhōují, Duānjū chǐ shèngmíng. Zuòguān chuídiàozhě, Tú yǒu xiàn yú qíng.

Translator:

Red Pine-Bill Porter 赤松

Notes: From the book Poems of the Masters, China's Classic Anthology of Tang and Song Dynasty verse. One of the best, if not "the best", books of general translations of Chinese poetry. Wonderfully detailed notes on each poem and all poems are displayed in the original Chinese. Translated by Red Pine, published by Copper Canyon Press.

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