清明时节雨纷纷,路上行人欲断魂。
借问酒家何处有,牧童遥指杏花村。
Du Mu
The Clear-and-Bridge Feast
Upon the Clear-and-Bridge Feast of spring
The rain drizzleth down in spray.
Pedestrians on country-side ways
In gloom are pining away.
When asked “where a tavern fair for rest
Is hereabouts to be found”,
The shepherd boy the Apricot Bloom Vill
Doth point to afar and say.
Tr. May 24, 1981.
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