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Li Po
Clear Stream, Midnight, I Hear the Flute
It's a Ch'iang flute, the long kind, and it draws
the notes
of "Plum Petals" as far as the can be
drawn.
At Wu Creek, by the built-up bank, clear water,
pure feelings.
I'm reminded that Ch'iang flutes can
converse with dragons.
At Cold Mountain, at Fall Cove, it was the
moon that hurt the most.
Here, what tears at the guts? Memories of the
palace, in this sound.
transl. by J.P. Seaton
Clear Stream, Midnight, I Hear the Flute
It's a Ch'iang flute, the long kind, and it draws
the notes
of "Plum Petals" as far as the can be
drawn.
At Wu Creek, by the built-up bank, clear water,
pure feelings.
I'm reminded that Ch'iang flutes can
converse with dragons.
At Cold Mountain, at Fall Cove, it was the
moon that hurt the most.
Here, what tears at the guts? Memories of the
palace, in this sound.
transl. by J.P. Seaton