Nature
An Old Fisherman
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu (1929) · From The Jade Mountain (1929)
An old fisherman spent the night here, under the western cliff;
He dipped up water from the pure Hsiang and made a bamboo fire;
And then, at sunrise, he went his way through the cloven mist,
With only the creak of his paddle left, in the greenness of mountain and river.
. . . I turn and see the waves moving as from heaven,
And clouds above the cliffs coming idly, one by one.
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Tsung-yüan, Liu. “An Old Fisherman.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/liu-tsung-yuan/5/.
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Tsung-yüan, Liu. “An Old Fisherman.” Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kang-hu. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/liu-tsung-yuan/5/.
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