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Poetry

Poem to the Tune “Pure Peace”

By Li Bai
Translated from Chinese by Jeffrey Yang
This poem was written during the Tang Dynasty era (619 to 907 A.D.), also known as the Golden Age of Chinese Poetry. It was originally set to music, but that music has been lost.

A cloud is her dress       a flower her face             Spring
wind through the threshold       stirs       deep peony-dew
If unable to meet                       on a jade mountain peak
we’ll face at Jasper Terrace                 beneath the moon

 

English

A cloud is her dress       a flower her face             Spring
wind through the threshold       stirs       deep peony-dew
If unable to meet                       on a jade mountain peak
we’ll face at Jasper Terrace                 beneath the moon

 

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