さわやかに風や日かげや
花はちす汀(みぎわ)をつつみ
見えてもせで蓮(はちす)採る子や
花がくれかたらふ聲す
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- ENG English (Qi Feng Wu) , "Picking Lotus Flowers", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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A day with a gentle breeze is a sunny day
I stop at the river with lotus flowers in Bi Zhou
I cannot see the lotus-picking girls
I can only hear their talking under the flowers.