On the Yangtze Watching the Hills by Su Tung-p’o

From the boat watching hills—swift horses:
a hundred herds race by in a flash.
Ragged peaks before us suddenly change shape,
ranges behind us start and rush away.
I look up: a narrow road angles back and forth,
a man walking it, high in the distance.
I wave from the deck, trying to call,
but the sail takes us south like a soaring bird.

translated by Burton Watson

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