<Header>
<Author: 王維>
<Title: 青谿>
<Format: 五言古詩>
<Year: 1929>
<BookName: The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology>
<Translator: Witter Bynner>
<TranslatedTitle: A GREEN STREAM>
<BookPage: 199>
<UsedPage: 1>
<Feature: 0>
<End Header>
<Poem>
言入黃花川，
每逐青谿水。
隨山將萬轉，
趣途無百里。
聲喧亂石中，
色靜深松裏。
漾漾汎菱荇，
澄澄映葭葦。
我心素已閑，
清川澹如此。
請留盤石上，
垂釣將已矣。
<End Poem>
<Translation>
I have sailed the River of Yellow Flowers,
Borne by the channel of a green stream,
Rounding ten thousand turns through the mountains
On a journey of less than thirty miles....
Rapids hum over heaped rocks;
But where light grows dim in the thick pines,
The surface of an inlet sways with nut-horns
And weeds are lush along the banks.
... Down in my heart I have always been as pure
As this limpid water is....
Oh, to remain on a broad flat rock
And to cast a fishing-line forever!
<End Translation>