Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Awakening from Sleep on a Spring Day

Life is an immense dream. Why toil?

All day long I drowse with wine,
And lie by the post at the front door.
Awakening, I gaze upon the garden trees,
And, hark, a bird is singing among the flowers.
Pray, what season may this be?
Ah, the songster's a mango-bird,
Singing to the passing wind of spring.
I muse and muse myself to sadness,
Once more I pour my wine, and singing aloud,
Await the bright moonrise.
My song is ended--
What troubled my soul?--I remember not.

by: Li Bai (701-762)
Ranunculus, Primula vulgaris, Pansy

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