Farewell at the River Tower by Wang An-shih

This clear stream keeps leaving these hundred mountains rising
ridge beyond ridge, and you’re a windblown thing carried north.

Past midnight, my thoughts at ease where shadowy origins of it
all begin, a moon lights this lone form I am, friend to cold pines.

translated by David Hinton

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