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The Girl of Ba Speaks

Li Bai 701-762 The water of the River Ba is swift like an arrow; The boat on the River Ba slips away As if it had wings. It will travel in ten days three thousand li. And you are going, my dear-- Ah, how many years before you return?

Bā Nǚ Cí

Lǐ Bái 701-762 Bā shuǐ jí rú jiàn， Bā chuán qù ruò fēi. Shí yuè sān qiān lǐ， Láng xíng jǐ suì guī?

Translator:

Shigeyoshi Obata 小畑薰良

Notes: Ba is the eastern region of Sichuan, traversed by the swift flowing Yangtze. __________ From the book The Works of Li Po, first published in Tokyo, Japan in 1935, Excellent English translations by a Japanese scholar.

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