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PoetSeers The Great Poets Li Po Li Po Poems - Vol ii I sat drinking

I sat drinking

 I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.
Drunken I rose and walked to the moonlit stream;
The birds were gone, and men also few.

 

Translated by: Arthur Waley

 

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