Drinking Alone

by Li Bai

　　to drink alone, without friends.

　　I raise my cup to entice the moon.

　　That, and my shadow, makes us three.

　　But the moon doesn't drink,

　　and my shadow silently follows.

　　I will travel with moon and shadow,

　　happy to the end of spring.

　　When I sing, the moon dances.

　　When I dance, my shadow dances, too.

　　We share life's joys when sober.

　　Drunk, each goes a separate way.

　　Constant friends, although we wander,

　　we'll meet again in the Milky Way.

　　Li Po