Li Bai, Waking From Drunkenness on a Spring Day

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“Life in the World is but a big dream:

I will not spoil it by any labour or care.”

So saying, I was drunk all the day,

Lying helpless at the porch in front of my door.

When I woke up, I blinked at the garden lawn;

A lonely bird was singing amid the flowers.

I asked myself, had the day been wet or fine?

The Spring wind was telling the mango-bird.

Moved by its song, I soon began to sigh,

And as wine was there, I filled my own cup.

Wildly singing, I waited for the moon to rise,

When my song was over, all my senses had gone.

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(Li Bai)