{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/mtc/mtc07.htm","path":"cfu/mtc/mtc07.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/mtc/mtc07.htm","text":"More Translations from the Chinese, by Arthur Waley, [1919]\n\"Life in the World is but a big dream;\n I will not spoil it by any labour or care.\"\n So saying, I was drunk all the day,\n Lying helpless at the porch in front of my door.\n When I woke up, I blinked at the garden-lawn;\n A lonely bird was singing amid the flowers.\n I asked myself, had the day been wet or fine?\n The Spring wind was telling the mango-bird.\n Moved by its song I soon began to sigh,\n And as wine was there I filled my own cup.\n Wildly singing I waited for the moon to rise;\n When my song was over, all my senses had gone.","title":"More Translations from the Chinese: Li Po: Waking From Dr...","type":"page"}