by Wang-Chang-Ling (698 - 765)
Translation by Charles Budd

采蓮曲二首 (其二)
Language: Chinese (中文) 
荷葉羅裙一色裁，
芙蓉向臉兩邊開。
亂入池中看不見，
聞歌始覺有人來。

Confirmed with Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (ed.), Quan Tang shi 全唐詩 (Complete Tang Poems), Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1985.


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So‑fei gathering flowers
Language: English  after the Chinese (中文) 
In a dress of gauzy fabric
  Of the "Lien" leaf's emerald hue
So-fei glides among the lilies
  Sprinkled with the morning dew.

Rose-hued are the lotus blossoms,
  Rose-hued, too, the maiden's cheeks;
Is it So-fei's form I follow,
  Or the flowers she seeks?

Now I hear a song arising
  From the lotus bowers,
Which distinguishes the maiden
  From her sister flowers.

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