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七言古詩 柳宗元 漁翁

漁翁夜傍西巖宿, 曉汲清湘燃楚燭。
煙銷日出不見人, 欸乃一聲山水綠。
迴看天際下中流, 巖上無心雲相逐。

Seven-character-ancient-verse
Liu Zongyuan AN OLD FISHERMAN

An old fisherman spent the night here, under the western cliff;
He dipped up water from the pure Hsiang and made a bamboo fire;
And then, at sunrise, he went his way through the cloven mist,
With only the creak of his paddle left, in the greenness of mountain and river.
...I turn and see the waves moving as from heaven,
And clouds above the cliffs coming idly, one by one.