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Unread 07-12-2007, 07:19 AM
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Originally posted by Mary Meriam:
Wu Songs

http://www.chinese-poems.com/lbe.html
Here's a translation of the cited poem based on the transliteration keeping the abcb rhyme pattern, the five sounds (syllables) per line, and a strict meter across all four lines to simulate the strict tonal pattern that is supposedly in the original.

Drinking, it got dark.
Blossoms piled on.
Drunk, moon's in the stream.
Birds and people, gone.

Here's another translation of this poem by Waley .



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