青溪

王維

言入黃花川， 每逐青溪水;

隨山將萬轉(zhuǎn)， 趣途無百里。

聲喧亂石中， 色靜深松里;

漾漾泛菱荇， 澄澄映葭葦。

我心素已閑， 清川澹如此。

請留盤石上， 垂釣將已矣!

A GREEN STREAM

Wang Wei

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!