王维： 青溪

王维: 青溪/ wang wei: a green stream
青溪
王维
言入黄花川， 每逐青溪水。
随山将万转， 趣途无百里。
声喧乱石中， 色静深松里。
漾漾泛菱荇， 澄澄映葭苇。
我心素已闲， 清川澹如此。
请留盘石上， 垂钓将已矣。
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!