Title.

Dawn Comes

To

The Spring River 
 
 


            Beside

                         the bamboo

                                     are

                                           three branches

                                                 of

                                           peachblossom;

                   When

                         the river water

                                     is

                                           warm

                         ducks

                                     are

                                          first

                                           to

                                           know.

                  Wormwood

                                     fills

                                           the earth,

                         the reeds’

                         budding

                                     is

                                           brief,

             just as

                         the globefish

                                     is

                                           good

                                           to

                   eat. 
 
 
 


                                                                                    Translated by

            James F. Maybury &

                                                                                   Da-hong Lu