by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Herbert Allen Giles (1845 - 1935)

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Language: English  after the Chinese (中文) 
The birds have all flown to their roost in the tree, 
  The last cloud has just floated lazily by ;
But we never tire of each other, not we,
  As we sit there together, -- the mountains and I.

Confirmed with Chinese Poetry in English Verse by Herbert Giles, London: Bernard Quaritch; Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., 1898, p. 61.


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