Ice in a Stream

 

 


かうせつ (江雪) りゅうそうげん (柳宗元)Liu Tsung-yuan (773-819 a.d.)

 

せんざん とり とぶ こと たえ、

まんけい じんしょう めつす

こしう さりふ の おう 、

ひとり かんかう の ゆき に つる

(詩文選45漢文名作36)

 

"Ice in a Stream

 

Across thousands of mountains no birds fly,

Across thousands of paths there are no footprints.

On a lonely boat lies an old fisherman

Fishing solitarily in the ice of a frozen stream."

(Payne, p. 228.)

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