<Header>
<Author: 白居易>
<Title: 池上二絕其二>
<Format: 五言絕句>
<Year: 2000>
<BookName: Po Chu-I Selected Poems>
<Translator: BURTON WATSON>
<TranslatedTitle: By the Pond, Two Chüeh-chü>
<BookPage: 139>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 0>
<End Header>
<Poem>
小娃撐小艇，
偷採白蓮迴。
不解藏蹤跡，
浮萍一道開。
<End Poem>
<Translation>
The little maid poles the small boat,
back from picking white lotuses on the sly.
She doesn't know how to hide her traces
but leaves a wide-open path through the drifting duckweed.
<End Translation>