The Green Stream
青谿 · Three Hundred Tang Poems
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The Green Stream
I enter the Yellow Flower River, and always follow the Qingxi stream.
It winds with the mountains for countless bends, yet the route is less than a hundred li.
Its sound is loud among the scattered stones; its color is still within the deep pines.
Rippling, it floats the water caltrop and weed; clear and bright, it reflects the reeds and rushes.
My heart has long been at ease—the tranquil stream is just like this.
Let me stay upon the flat rock, and here I will fish until the end.
青谿
言入黃花川，每逐青谿水。
隨山將萬轉，趣途無百里。
聲喧亂石中，色靜深松裏。
漾漾泛菱荇，澄澄映葭葦。
我心素已閒，清川澹如此。
請留盤石上，垂釣將已矣。