Night Thoughts Aboard A Boat by Tu Fu

zdunno03's avatarLeonard Durso

A bank of fine grass and light breeze
A tall-masted solitary night boat.
Stars descend over the vast wild plain;
The moon bobs in the Great River’s flow.
Fame: is it ever to be won in literature?
Office: I should give up, old and sick.
Floating, floating, what am I like?
Between earth and sky, a gull alone.

translated by James J.Y. Liu & Irving Y. Lo

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