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

Bound Home to Mount Sung

Witter Bynner and Kiang Kung-hu, trans.

From “Poems by Wang Wei”
From the Chinese

THE LIMPID river, past its bushes

Flowing slowly as my chariot,

Seems a fellow-voyager

Returning with the evening-birds.

A ruined city-wall overtops an old ferry,

Autumn sunset floods the peaks….

Far away, beside Mount Sung,

I shall rest and close my door.