by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762)
Translation by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971)

獨坐敬亭山
Language: Chinese (中文) 
眾鳥高飛盡
孤雲去獨閒
相看兩不厭
唯有敬亭山

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  • Also set in Slovenian (Slovenščina), a translation by Ferdo Kozak (1894 - 1957) , copyright © ; composed by Lucijan Marija Škerjanc.

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  • ENG English (Shigeyoshi Obata) , "The Chinting mountain", first published 1922


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The Chinting mountain
Language: English  after the Chinese (中文) 
Flocks of birds have flown high and away;
A solitary drift of cloud, too, has gone, wandering on.
And I sit alone with the Ching-ting Peak, towering beyond.
We never grow tired of each other, the mountain and I.

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