The Turning Year by Su Tung P’o (Su Shi)

Nightfall. Clouds scatter and vanish.
The sky is pure and cold.
Silently the River of Heaven turns in the Jade Vault.
If tonight I do not enjoy life to the full,
Next month, next year, who knows where I will be?

translated by Kenneth Rexroth

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