A STATEMENT OF RESOLUTIONS AFTER BEING DRUNK ON A SPRING DAY
Florence Wheelock Ayscough translation
BY LI T'AI-PO
This time of ours Is like a great, confused dream. Why should one spend one's life in toil? Thinking this, I have been drunk all day. I fell down and lay prone by the pillars in front of the house; When I woke up, I gazed for a long time At the courtyard before me. A bird sings among the flowers. May I ask what season this is? Spring wind, The bright oriole of the water-flowing flight calls. My feelings make me want to sigh. The wine is still here, I will throw back my head and drink. I sing splendidly, I wait for the bright moon. Already, by the end of the song, I have forgotten my feelings.