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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

A View of the Han River

Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.

From “Poems by Wang Wei”
From the Chinese

WITH its three Hsiang branches it reaches Ch’u border

And with nine streams touches the gateway of Ching:

This river runs beyond heaven and earth,

Where the color of mountains both is and is not.

The dwellings of men seem floating along

On ripples of the distant sky….

O Hsiang-yang, how your beautiful days

Make drunken my old mountain-heart!