Listen to this article五言古詩
王維
青谿
言入黃花川， 每逐青谿水；
隨山將萬轉， 趣途無百里。
聲喧亂石中， 色靜深松裡；
漾漾汎菱荇， 澄澄映葭葦。
我心素已閒， 清川澹如此。
請留盤石上， 垂釣將已矣！
Five-character-quatrain
Wang Wei
A GREEN STREAM
I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers,
Borne by the channel of a green stream,
Rounding ten thousand turns through the mountains
On a journey of less than thirty miles….
Rapids hum over heaped rocks;
But where light grows dim in the thick pines,
The surface of an inlet sways with nut-horns
And weeds are lush along the banks.
…Down in my heart I have always been as pure
As this limpid water is….
Oh, to remain on a broad flat rock
And to cast a fishing-line forever!
