AFTER CH’U YUAN

I will get me to the wood

Where the gods walk garlanded in wisteria,

By the silver-blue flood move others with ivory cars.

There come forth many maidens

to gather grapes for the leopards, my friend.

For there are leopards drawing the cars.

I will walk in the glade,

I will come out of the new thicket

and accost the procession of maidens.