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Poetry · five-character quatrain

River Snow

柳宗元Tang dynastyfive-character quatrain
SOURCE TEXT · 中文原文
千山鸟飞绝,
万径人踪灭。
孤舟蓑笠翁,
独钓寒江雪。
English translation

River Snow

Across a thousand mountains, no bird is in flight;
on ten thousand paths, no human trace remains.
In a lone boat, an old man in straw cape and hat
fishes alone in the snow on the cold river.