I often recall one sunset in a riverside pavilion. Having drunk too much, I forgot the way home. Knowing it was late, I started back in my boat at dusk but paddled by mistake into a thick patch of lotuses. Struggling to get out, struggling to get out, I startled a whole sandbar of egrets into flight.
3.4
常記溪亭日暮。
沈醉不知歸路。
興盡晚回舟
誤入藕花深處。 爭渡。
爭渡。 驚起一灘鷗鷺。
To the tune “As If in a Dream”
I often recall one sunset in a riverside pavilion. Having drunk too much, I forgot the way home. Knowing it was late, I started back in my boat at dusk
but paddled by mistake into a thick patch of lotuses. Struggling to get out, struggling to get out, I startled a whole sandbar of egrets into flight.