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Cataract on Mount Lu

Li, Bai (701 - 762)

Original Text: 

300 Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Xu Yuanchong (the Chinese-English Edition with Chinese Phonetic Symbols; Beijing: Peking University Press, 2004): 192-93.

1The sunlit Censer peak exhales a wreath of cloud;
2Like an upended stream the cataract sounds loud.
3Its torrent dashes down three thousand feet from high
4As if the Silver River fell from azure sky.

Notes

1] Censer peak, or Xianglu Feng: the highest point of Mount Ge. Back to Line
4] Silver River: Chinese name for the Milky Way. Back to Line
RPO poem Editors: 
Data entry: Sharine Leung
RPO Edition: 
2012
Form: 
seven-character-quatrain