On Kusu Terrace

by Li Bai

  


The old gardens of Kusu Terrace

  are a wilderness, yet the willows

  that remain still put out new branches;

  lasses gathering water chestnuts

  sing so loudly and with such

  clarity, that the feeling of spring

  returns to us; but where once stood

  the palace of the King of Wu, now

  only the moon over the

  west river once shone on

  the lovely ladies there.

  Li Po


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