The Jade Mountain/On a Walk in the Early Spring

by Du Shenyan

Tu Shên-yen

言審杜

ON A WALK IN THE EARLY SPRING

Harmonizing A Poem By My Friend Lu
Stationed at Ch'ang-choi

 

Only to wanderers can comeEver new the shock of beauty,Of white cloud and red cloud dawning from the sea,Of spring in the wild-plum and river-willow. . . .I watch a yellow oriole dart in the warm air,And a green water-plant reflected by the sun.Suddenly an old song fillsMy heart with home, my eyes with tears.

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