It is like listening to the waters in ten thousand ravines, and the wind in ten thousand pine-trees.

The traveller's heart is washed clean as in flowing water.

The echoes of the overtones join with the evening bell.

I am not conscious of the sunset behind the jade-grey hill,

Nor how many and dark are the Autumn clouds.


CH'ANG KAN

BY LI T'AI-PO

When the hair of your Unworthy One first began to cover her forehead,