Visitors for whom the flowers bloom

The Wang River collection (9)

Lakeside Gazebo 
Wang Wei 

The lightweight skiff so leisurely comes sailing 
To where we grandee passengers are found. 
We stand with goblets at the boathouse railing 
And watch the lotus blooming all around. 

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Pei Di's poem at the same site (prose translation):

At the railing, all is rippling water; a lonely moon is bobbing back and forth. From the valley comes the call of gibbons, carried by the breeze into our pavilion.

As Wang’s grandee passengers pass, the flowers open. Everything is just a little more magical in his imagination.

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临湖亭

轻舸迎上客，悠悠湖上来。

当轩对尊酒，四面芙蓉开。