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Fir-Flower Tablets

FISHING PICTURE

Florence Wheelock Ayscough translation

The fishermen draw their nets From the great pool of the T'an River. They have hired a boat And come here to fish by the reflected light Of the sunken sun.

Ta Chung-kuang, 19th Century

Illustration from Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese

FACSIMILE OF ORIGINAL "HANGING-ON-THE-WALL POEM" ENTITLED "FISHING PICTURE"

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