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object:1.lb - The River Song
author class:Li Bai
subject class:Poetry
book class:Li Bai - Poems
class:chapter

This boat is of shato-wood, and its gunwales are
     cut magnolia,
Musicians with jewelled flutes and with pipes of gold
Fill full the sides in rows, and our wine
Is rich for a thousand cups.
We carry singing girls, drift with the drifting water,
Yet Sennin needs
A yellow stork for a charger, and all our seamen
Would follow the white gulls or ride them.
Kutsu's prose song
Hangs with the sun and moon.

King So's terraced palace
                   is now but barren hill,
But I draw pen on this barge
Causing the five peaks to tremble,
And I have joy in these words
                   like the joy of blue islands.
(If glory could last forever
Then the waters of Han would flow northward.)

And I have moped in the Emperor's garden, await-
    ing an order-to-write !
I looked at the dragon-pond, with its willow-
    coloured water
Just reflecting the sky's tinge,
And heard the five-score nightingales aimlessly singing.

The eastern wind brings the green colour into the
     island grasses at Yei-shu,
The purple house and the crimson are full of Spring
     softness.
South of the pond the willow-tips are half-blue and
     bluer,
Their cords tangle in mist, against the brocade-like
     palace.
Vine-strings a hundred feet long hang down from
     carved railings,
And high over the willows, the fine birds sing to
     each other, and listen,
CryingKwan, Kuan,' for the early wind, and the
     feel of it.
The wind bundles itself into a bluish cloud and
     wanders off.
Over a thousand gates, over a thousand doors are
     the sounds of spring singing,

And the Emperor is at Ko.
Five clouds hang aloft, bright on the purple sky,
The imperial guards come forth from the golden
     house with their armour a-gleaming.
The Emperor in his jewelled car goes out to inspect
     his flowers,
He goes out to Hori, to look at the wing-flapping
     storks,
He returns by way of Sei rock, to hear the new
     nightingales,
For the gardens at Jo-run are full of new nighting-
     gales,
Their sound is mixed in this flute,
Their voice is in the twelve pipes here.




This poem is from CATHAY (London: Elkin Mathews, 1915), the volume of Chinese poems
  The book's widely-applauded publication prompted T.S. Eliot to remark that Pound had "reinvented Chinese poetry for our time."
   CATHAY is comprised of 18 translations of various early Chinese poems, eleven poems by T'ang Dynasty poet Li Po ("Rihaku"), and the Anglo-Saxon poem, "The Seafarer," which Pound included for timeline comparison of 8th-Century English poetry with 8th-Century Chinese poetry.
   CATHAY ranks among the most pivotal publications in the entire history of translation and of modern poetry in English.
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