Alone beside the Autumn River by Li Shang-yin

All spring, my sorrows grew like lotus leaves.
Now they wither as my autumn sadness grows.

Grief is as long and wide as life.
Watch the autumn river. Listen to it flow.

translated by Sam Hamill

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