<span class="chinese-post-title">鳥鳴澗</span> Birdsong Brook by <span class="chinese-post-title">王維</span> Wáng​ Wéi

鳥鳴澗

人閒桂花落
夜靜春山空
月出驚山鳥
時鳴春澗中

王維

At ease and I see osmanthus flowers falling---
A night so still, a mountain so hollow in spring.
Up comes the moon awaking the mountain birds,
By the brook in spring, then and again they sing.

Translated by Andrew W.F. Wong 黃宏發