Journeying to Hsiang-yi by Ch’en Yü-yi

Speeding flowers along the shores mirror my boat red;
A bank of elms for a hundred li, half a day’s breeze—
Lying, I watch the clouds motionless everywhere in the sky,
Not knowing that the clouds and I are both traveling east.

translated by Irving Y. Lo

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