An early cricket sings clear, then stops;
a lamp flickers out, then flares up again.
Outside the window, telling me evening
rain's come: a clattering in banana trees.
Bai JuYi [Po Chü-i] (772 - 846) China
Translated by David Hinton
Source: The selected poems of Po Chüi-i, Translated by David Hinton, New Directions Pub. Corp., 1999
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