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Monday, 2 June 2025

In a Retreat among Bamboos - Wang Wei

Alone I am sitting under close bamboos,
Playing on my lute, singing without words.
Who can hear me in this thicket?…
Bright and friendly comes the moon.

Wang Wei (699 - 759) China
Translated by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu
Source: Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, edited by Harriet Monroe, Volume XIX. No. 5. February, 1922

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