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    #旅夜書懷

    細草微風岸,危檣獨夜舟。
    星垂平野闊,月湧大江流。
    名豈文章著,官應老病休。
    飄飄何所似,天地一沙鷗。

    "Thoughts While Travelling at Night"

    Tiny wind on the shore’s fine grass.
    Lonely night below a boat’s tall mast.
    Over a vast plain stars hang low;
    the moon floats; a huge river flows.
    How can poems make me known?
    I'm old and sick, my career done.
    Drifting. What kind of soul am I?
    A lone gull between earth and sky.

    – Du Fu #杜甫, my revision of translation below.

    #Chinese #poetry @chineseliterature @grahamsanders