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五言古詩 王維 青谿

言入黃花川, 每逐青谿水;
隨山將萬轉, 趣途無百里。
聲喧亂石中, 色靜深松裡;
漾漾汎菱荇, 澄澄映葭葦。
我心素已閒, 清川澹如此。
請留盤石上, 垂釣將已矣!

Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei A GREEN STREAM

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!