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A green stream

yán
rù
huáng
huā
chuān

měi
zhú
qīng

shuǐ


suí
shān
jiāng
wàn
zhuǎn

qù
tú
wú
bǎi



shēng
xuān
luàn
shí
zhōng

sè
jìng
shēn
sōng



yàng
yàng
fàn
líng
xìng

chéng
chéng
yìng
jiā
wěi


wǒ
xīn
sù

xián

qīng
chuān
dàn
rú



qǐng
líu
pán
shí
shàng

chuí
diào
jiāng




I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers,

Borne by the channel of a GREen stream,

Rounding ten thousand turns through the mountains

On a journey of less than thirty miles....

Rapids hum over heaped rocks;

But where light grows dim in the thick pines,

the surface of an inlet sways with nut-horns

And weeds are lush along the banks.

...Down in my heart I have always been as pure

As this limpid water is....

Oh, to remain on a broad flat rock

And to cast a fishing-line forever!
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